Ben Gillies
Principal Software Engineer II at McKinsey & Company
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Gillies is a Principal Software Engineer II based in London with 16 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in rich client-side JavaScript and RESTful backends. He has progressed through engineering and advisory roles at McKinsey & Company and earlier led consultancy and product work across Digital Science and BT, blending frontend frameworks (Ember, d3) with backend and data-pipeline technologies (Ruby on Rails, Clojure/Cascalog). A pragmatist who prefers simple, semantic web design and strong UX, he stays active in the tech community through conferences and meetups and takes a tool-focused approach to solving problems. His background includes building extensible apps like TiddlySpace and practical reporting and data-migration systems that drove measurable productivity gains. Known for balancing hands-on implementation with architectural thinking, he brings both delivery discipline and a curiosity for new technologies to large-scale, enterprise environments.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Applied Computer Science: First Class Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Applied Computer Science: First Class Computer Science at University of Reading
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Github Skills (101)
js-plugin10
directives8
testing8
ember-addon8
react-dom8
excel7
bluetooth7
beaglebone-black7
javascript7
filtering7
dom7
i2c7
sorting7
grid7
react7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bengillies/ember-parallel
Jan 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
ember-addonparallelemberjsemberember-js
bengillies/stuff-js
Apr 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 9 months
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