Ben Lewis
Software Engineer at Freelance Musician/Composer
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBen Lewis is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of professional experience, currently building payment and restaurants-focused products at Block in Boulder, CO. He spent several years at Twitter advancing developer-facing platforms, anti-abuse tooling, and embeddable publisher experiences, demonstrating strengths across front-end and back-end stacks (React/Redux, Ruby, Scala, JavaScript). A Turing School graduate with a BA in Music, Ben brings an uncommon blend of disciplined engineering and creative practice—he’s also an active open-source contributor to the Exercism Ruby track, adding and testing algorithmic exercises like binary-search and minesweeper. His background as a professional musician and K–12 music teacher informs a collaborative, pedagogical approach to mentoring and code quality.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music at Vassar CollegeIB Diploma, Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Triginometry, Statistics, English, Biology, Spanish, Psychology, IB Diploma, Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Triginometry, Statistics, English, Biology, Spanish, Psychology at William J Palmer High SchoolGraduate, Full Stack Software Engineering, Graduate, Full Stack Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignCertification, Music Education K-12, Certification, Music Education K-12 at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
minitest10
data-structures10
algorithms10
data-structure10
ruby10
tdd9
tracks9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/ruby
Jan 2014 - Oct 2014
Exercism exercises in Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Ruby track by adding new exercises and providing solutions for the exercism platform. Their contributions included implementing and testing solutions for the "custom-set," "binary-search," "minesweeper," and "scale-generator" exercises. The commits demonstrate a focus on problem-solving and creating tests to ensure the correctness of the implemented code. Additionally, there are commits that fix and update existing exercises to match specified requirements.
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fluxusfrequency/JetFuelExpress
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 2 months
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