Ben Furber
Gratuate Entry Medical Student
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Furber is a software engineer and product-minded leader with nine years of experience building and managing web and mobile products across charities, startups, and scaleups. He blends hands-on full-stack development (React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Firebase) with people leadership—having hired and line-managed teams, created progression frameworks tied to pay reviews, and established new Technical BA functions. Recent work includes maintaining the One Army community platform and short-term engineering contracts, while pivoting into graduate-entry medicine, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and service-driven motivation. Comfortable coaching and scaling teams, he has a track record of improving engineering processes (notably reducing PR backlogs) and turning product needs into practical delivery. Ben’s background in digital product roles for nonprofits and founding a small e-commerce business gives him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to building impactful software.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at MakersBachelor's degree Global politics and international relations, Bachelor's degree Global politics and international relations at Birkbeck, University of London
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Github Skills (33)
twitter10
instagram10
typescript10
theme-ui10
react10
twilio10
javascript9
plastic9
explore8
rails8
css8
ruby8
rails-engines8
cv-template8
fmi7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benfurber/plant-trast
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
benfurber/ApprenticeProgress
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
A platform to track Ben's progress through his thoughtbot apprenticeship
Contributions:36 PRs, 74 pushes, 40 branches in 4 months
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