Ben Mitchell
Technical Lead at Scotiabank
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Mitchell is a Technical Lead with a decade of experience building and shipping full-stack web applications, currently driving delivery at Scotiabank while teaching web development at BrainStation. He blends a strong engineering toolkit—TypeScript, React/Redux, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, Docker/GCP CI/CD and Jest—with practical ops experience in AWS and Terraform, enabling reliable end-to-end production deployments. His background spans startup roles (co-founder/COO) and growth-stage product engineering at Curv Health, so he comfortably navigates both business strategy and hands-on implementation. A former physical chemistry researcher, he brings analytical rigor to system design and is now expanding into Salesforce best practices, reflecting a continual focus on integrating technical solutions with business needs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Chemistry, Honours Chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at BrainStationOSSD, Secondary School, OSSD, Secondary School at Collingwood Collegiate Institute
Github Skills (24)
bar-code10
camera10
react-native9
face-detection9
account-kit9
facebook-account-kit8
dao7
serverless6
mongodb6
database6
graphql5
database-tools5
orm5
callback5
facebook5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
willbenmitch/willbenmitch-dot-com
Feb 2020 - Apr 2024
code for willbenmitch.com
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 2 months
willbenmitch/bugger-your-neighbour
Apr 2020 - Apr 2024
The Mitchell Family's favourite game
Contributions:16 PRs, 16 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years
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