Ben Fox
Lead Software Engineer at NOLS - National Outdoor Leadership School
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Fox is a lead software engineer in Seattle with 11–14 years of full‑stack product engineering experience, currently building healthcare products at Salesforce and previously leading engineering at Lumedic. He specializes in React, Next.js, C#, SQL, and Azure microservice architectures, and has a track record of turning greenfield projects into production releases while establishing CI/CD, shared libraries, and clear architecture documentation. A hands-on leader, he focuses on maintainable, well-documented code and mentors distributed teams to ship consistent, testable systems. Outside tech he’s a long‑time NOLS faculty member who teaches leadership, wilderness medicine, and technical travel—skills he leverages to manage high-stress situations, coach teams, and foster inclusive group dynamics. The combination of deep front-to-back expertise and field-based leadership training gives him a rare blend of technical rigor and human-centered team stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Digital Media Studies, BA, Digital Media Studies at University of DenverMandarin, Mandarin at Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityMandarin, Mandarin at Yunnan Normal University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (112)
csrf10
authentication10
salesforce-lightning10
linter10
spid10
auth10
nuxt-auth10
javascript10
solidjs10
browser10
jwt10
salesforce10
sveltekit10
stateless10
access-token10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BenjaminWFox/nextjs-middleware-chain
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:71 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
BenjaminWFox/website-2020
Jun 2020 - Sep 2023
My personal site, primarily a custom built Next.js SSG Markdown blog
Contributions:89 PRs, 219 pushes, 83 branches in 3 years 3 months
next-jsreactssgmarkdown-blognextjs
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