Ben Jeavons is an engineering leader and founder with roughly 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of domain knowledge across consumer finance, payments, fintech, growth engineering, and web security. He has led teams at Coinbase building retail trading and fiat-onramp products, and previously ran engineering and technical strategy as Head/Director at CARD.com, shipping major payments and mobile initiatives. A pragmatic builder who started and sold a web security startup (Scout) and contributed security tooling like a PHP port of zxcvbn, he blends product-focused delivery with deep attention to authentication and DevSecOps. Based in San Francisco, he pairs executive-level strategy with practical engineering processes—hiring, on-call, and CI/CD—helping organizations scale reliably while keeping user trust and security front of mind.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 53 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on implementing core functionalities for a PHP password strength estimation library. Their work included adding and modifying matchers, enhancing the overall password strength calculation, and integrating new components. They also addressed code style issues by applying Symfony coding standards and developing tests to validate the library's behavior, enhancing code quality and maintainability.
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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