Ben Hu
Full Stack Engineer at DotCollective
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Hu is a Full Stack Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience building commerce-focused web applications, integrations, and internal tooling. He has shipped Shopify themes, Checkout Extensibility work, and API integrations (Klaviyo, Algolia, dotDigital) while favouring Alpine.js, Vite, Tailwind and Laravel with Livewire for pragmatic, performant frontends and backends. His background spans DevOps and migrations (Magento M1→M2), AzureAD-hosted services, and ETL—skills honed migrating platforms and reducing operational overhead. Earlier in his career he applied quantitative geoscience rigor as a PhD-trained geologist, building data-driven toolkits that turned day-long reporting tasks into minutes. Now at DotCollective after a recent tenure at WeAreDigital., he blends strategy, UX awareness and hands-on coding to deliver human-centred digital solutions. He’s actively seeking web development, R&D or MSP roles and brings a habit of automating repetitive work and choosing practical, composable tooling.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geology/Earth Science General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geology/Earth Science General at University of AberdeenMaster of Science (MSc) Natural Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Natural Sciences at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (163)
visual-studio10
wechat10
laravel10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
php10
simulate9
chatgpt9
jquery9
tauri9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminv/Angular-timeline-demo-app
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 10 days
benjaminv/ChatGPT-Next-Web
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
One-Click to deploy your own ChatGPT web UI.
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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