Ben Monro
Software Engineer at Meta
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Monro is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of professional experience and 14 years of focused industry tenure, currently contributing at Meta after senior roles at Walmart Labs, PwC, and SAP Concur. He blends hands-on development with platform and build-system modernization—migrating legacy monoliths to microservice-friendly workflows and teaching teams modern JavaScript tooling and practices. A strong advocate for testing and accessibility, Ben contributes to the popular dom-testing-library project, improving test coverage and query ergonomics. Comfortable across languages from C# and Java to Ruby, PHP and C++, he pairs deep systems knowledge with people skills honed while leading teams and running workshops. Driven to stay technical, he prefers staying "in the code" while driving reliable, test-first delivery at scale.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at UAT
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
jestjs10
test-automation10
testing10
android-intent6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
testing-library/dom-testing-library
May 2020 - Nov 2020
🐙 Simple and complete DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on enhancing and improving the testing capabilities of the `dom-testing-library` repository. They implemented new tests, refined existing ones, and addressed edge cases to ensure comprehensive coverage. Their contributions included suggesting better query methods and handling various scenarios within the testing framework. The user also made improvements to the suggestion features, including handling ignores and escaping regular expressions.
domtestingjavascript
testing-library/testcafe-testing-library
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
:ox: Simple and complete custom Selectors for Testcafe that encourage good testing practices.
Contributions:19 releases, 46 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year 7 months
testcafetestingtesting-librarytest-automationend-to-end-testing
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