Ben Lawson
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Lawson is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building systems that improve everyday lives, currently working on Bluetooth support for Fuchsia at Google in San Francisco. He has a strong full-stack background from roles at the Salk Institute—where he built an iOS app, backend, and a Raspberry Pi data logger for circadian research—to internships delivering APIs, Alexa skills, and memory-analysis tooling at Medtronic, HP, and others. Comfortable across mobile (Objective-C, Swift), backend (Node.js, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL), and web stacks (Rails, React), he pairs product-focused engineering with attention to performance and data integrity. Notably, his work at Salk bridged academic research and consumer platforms, demonstrating an ability to translate scientific needs into polished, deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (99)
ide10
wordpress-plugin10
browser9
torrent9
music9
rust9
pdf-generation9
streaming9
cpp9
embedded9
machine-learning9
pdf9
webrtc9
nodejs9
wordpress8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BenjaminLawson/PeerTunes
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:118 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
BenjaminLawson/PDF.js-Viewer-Shortcode
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
A Wordpress plugin for embedding PDFs using Mozilla's Excellent PDF.js
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
pdfwordpressexcellentpdf-generationpdfs
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