Ben Gardner
Software Engineering Manager at Tab Commerce
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Gardner is a Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building polished front-end experiences in React and resilient, scalable backends on Node.js deployed to AWS and Kubernetes. He has progressed from technical director roles to senior full-stack positions and now leads engineering at Tab Commerce, blending hands-on coding with team leadership. Comfortable across the stack, he emphasizes shipping reliable, production-ready systems while mentoring engineers to adopt modern cloud-native practices. His background is unusually broad—formal study in liberal arts and medicine before pivoting to software—bringing a disciplined, user-centered approach to problem solving. Based in New Jersey, he’s driven by a maker’s mindset (as his GitHub bio simply puts it: "I love making things") and a knack for turning complex requirements into clean, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at St. John's CollegeMedicine, Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Github Skills (57)
graphcool10
draft-js10
node-api9
apollo9
graphql8
html8
cli8
react8
command-line8
prompt8
css8
javascript8
nodejs8
markdown8
rich-text7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
unshift/parlay
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:165 pushes, 1 branch, 82 tags in 4 months
unshift/namewhisk
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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