Ben Forrest
Lead Backend Developer at Fabmin
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarBen Forrest is a Lead Backend Developer and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building and shipping web and desktop applications across startups and large organisations. He codes daily in Ruby and JavaScript, has deep software design and architecture expertise, and has led engineering teams through Agile, XP and Lean practices. As a co-founder and consultant CTO he blends product-minded leadership with practical engineering, and has coached over 200 beginner developers at an industry-leading bootcamp. Based in Folkestone, he balances a pragmatic focus on quality and mentorship with creative pursuits—directing amateur theatre and practising Aikido—which informs his collaborative approach to team culture and craft.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (46)
javascript10
twitter10
instagram10
css10
fmi10
explore10
react10
twilio10
actionmailer8
mvc8
schema7
sparkpost7
database6
ruby6
activerecord5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
makersacademy/build-a-website
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Make your own website and host it live!
Contributions:35 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
own-websitehost
silvabox/bowling_js
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 6 months
makersjavascriptbowlingscorecardjasmine
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