Ben Knight
Full Stack Engineer at Namecheap
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Knight is a Full Stack Engineer with 14 years of experience blending front-end craftsmanship and pragmatic back-end skills, currently building at Namecheap from Ho Chi Minh City. He started as a PHP developer, moved through freelance UI/graphic design, and has since focused on creating polished, accessible web experiences that bridge design and code. At companies like Yelp, Thumbtack and CouchSurfing he modernized front-end architectures and collaborated closely with product teams to ship features across desktop and mobile. An advocate for the open web, he has contributed front-end optimizations to high-profile projects such as Shopify’s Timber theme—fixing touch-scrolling, hardware-accelerating drawers, and refining SCSS mixins. Comfortable across the full stack, he brings a designer’s eye to interactions and a developer’s discipline to maintainable, performant UI.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics Spanish Computer Science, B.A. Mathematics Spanish Computer Science at Colby CollegeUniversidad de Salamanca
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
css10
scs10
front-end-development10
sc10
shopify9
mixins9
theme-development9
responsive-design8
transition8
ui-design7
interface-design7
user-interface7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/Timber
May 2015 - Jun 2015
The ultimate Shopify theme framework, built by Shopify.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Ben focused on front-end optimization and UI improvements within the Shopify Timber framework. Their contributions primarily involved modifying SCSS files to address touch scrolling issues on Android Chrome, hardware-accelerate drawers, and implement various mixins for enhanced styling control. The user also refactored transitions and added the `promote-layer` mixin. Several commits were related to modifying or removing SCSS-based mixins.
shopify-theme-frameworktwigshopify-themetimbertheme-framework
benknight/cocolist
May 2019 - May 2021
Cocolist web front end
Contributions:349 commits, 106 pushes in 2 years
front-endweb-front-end
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