Ben Gan
Web Developer at tixCraft Inc.
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Gan is a pragmatic web developer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building surveillance, ERP, e-commerce, and ticketing systems. He excels at shipping payment and API integrations in high-transaction environments, having integrated Adyen, Braintree, Red Dot Payment and multiple SMS providers while modernizing legacy PHP codebases. Comfortable across full stack concerns, he has built IoT and surveillance backends with Node.js/MQTT, designed normalized relational schemas, and led framework and SDK upgrades to improve maintainability. At scale teams like KKday he maintained core API services and added automated tests and Swagger documentation to reduce risk. An active contributor to GitHub’s official CLI, he’s improved UX for commands like clone/view and added pull-request workflow features, showing attention to developer ergonomics as well as product code. He prioritizes uncovering root causes over quick fixes, turning messy business logic into testable, sustainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Agricultural Economics, Bachelor's degree, Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University
Github Skills (6)
command-line-interface10
git10
go10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions primarily involved enhancing the GitHub CLI tool. They implemented features such as the ability to change the base branch of a pull request, and added interactive selection in the gist view. Additionally, the user fixed typos and improved the usability of the `clone` and `view` commands. These changes span both command-line interface enhancements and core functionality.
command-line-toolcligolang
ganboonhong/cli
Aug 2020 - Apr 2025
GitHub’s official command line tool
Contributions:40 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 8 months
command-line-toolcommand-linecommandline-toolcli
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