Ben King
Founder & CEO at Lion Feet
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen King is a founder and full‑stack web engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing products used by millions and leading teams from startup greenfields to scale. He combines hands‑on frontend expertise—recently focusing on rich client-side UIs with React and Next.js—with product and UX sensibility honed as a product manager at Festicket. Ben has founded and led multiple ventures (Lion Feet, Telegraphy, Dancefloor) and delivered large‑scale, high‑traffic systems at organisations like the BBC and Rooster Teeth, bringing both technical depth (Node.js, Elixir, Laravel) and operational experience on AWS. He’s comfortable shifting between strategy and execution, from designing discovery and e‑commerce flows to formalising design systems and mentoring engineers. Based in Barcelona, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a marketer’s instinct—having executed social campaigns that attracted global audiences—so his products aim to delight users and drive measurable business results.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Media with Communications, Bachelor’s Degree Media with Communications at Nottingham Trent University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
modals10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
apollo-client10
ember10
hybrid10
swiftui10
auth10
javascript10
razzle10
session-management10
solidjs10
browser10
react-framework10
html10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
festicket/route-manager
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
🚕 Manage route paths and url's with ease
Contributions:320 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
routerpathsroutejavascriptrouting
benkingcode/ember-routable-modal
Dec 2016 - May 2018
An ember-cli addon for implementing URL-first modals.
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
ember-cli-addonmodalsemberaddonemberjs
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