Ben Holmes
Software Engineer at Circle
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Holmes is a software engineer in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience building performant systems across consumer and infrastructure-focused teams, including multiple stints at Circle and a performance engineering role at Apple. Trained in Engineering Physics at UBC with an exchange at DTU, he combines software development with mechanical and electrical design fluency and strong first-principles problem solving. His background spans applied tech in the outdoors industry (Specialized Bicycle Components) to quant and dashboard work, giving him a rare mix of embedded/mechanical understanding and backend/frontend software delivery. An avid skier, climber, and biker, he purposefully seeks projects that enable sustainable outdoor experiences and product innovation. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex physical constraints into practical, well-performing software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Physics at The University of British ColumbiaTechnical University of Denmark
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
prebuild8
xmake8
hash-functions8
system-programming7
convolutional-neural-networks7
io-uring7
multicore7
operating-system7
react6
angularjs6
graph6
continuous-integration6
javascript6
unix6
image-processing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BenGHolmes/BenGHolmes.github.io
Sep 2017 - Nov 2023
Personal website
Contributions:10 PRs, 172 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 2 months
reactnextjs
BenGHolmes/WikiGameBot
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Creating a graph of all connected Wikipedia pages in order to dominate at The Wiki Game (https://www.thewikigame.com)
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
wiki-gameconnectedwikipediagraphin-order
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