Ben Leivian
CTO Partner at Smile Advantage
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBen Leivian is a seasoned CTO and product-focused engineer with two decades of experience designing delightful web and UI/UX-driven software, currently leading Smile Advantage’s SaaS platform for dental memberships and payments. He blends hands-on full-stack development with product leadership—shipping secure payment processing, PMS integrations, automations, and CI/CD pipelines—while keeping user experience and operational simplicity front and center. Previously he architected advisor-matching and headless e-commerce platforms, pairing matching algorithms and GraphQL-powered SPAs with thoughtful design and packaging work. Based in Phoenix, he values collaboration and pragmatic engineering, and often bridges design, front-end craft, and backend systems in the same sprint. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of operational IT and prepress automation work, which gives him a practical edge in reliability and deployment workflows.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Media, 3D Modeling/Animation, Digital Media, 3D Modeling/Animation at Glendale Community CollegeUniversity of The InternetMountain Ridge High School
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Github Skills (55)
application-settings10
css10
gulp10
linux10
gulp-sass10
hyper10
backup10
browsersync10
bourbon10
neat10
bower9
javascript9
underscores9
wordpress9
sass9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drawbackwards/Forward-Framework
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
A killer WordPress theme framework built using underscores, gulp, sass, bourbon neat, bower & browsersync.
Contributions:1 release, 125 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 11 months
browsersyncgulpgulp-sasssasswordpress
benleivian/benleivian.github.io
Jun 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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