Ben Myers
Senior Frontend Engineer at Confluent
McKinney, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Myers is a Senior Frontend Engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, internationalized web experiences for large-scale products. He helped shape Microsoft Learn's Atlas Design System and has led accessibility and UX work across high-traffic banking pages at USAA, combining hands-on React front-end development with mentorship and onboarding of junior engineers. An active accessibility advocate and educator, Ben blogs at benmyers.dev and previously hosted a Twitch series that brought web experts together to teach practical, hands-on techniques. Now at Confluent, he continues to focus on inclusive, performant UIs while contributing front-end improvements in open-source projects like chantastic/sites (dark mode and theming fixes). Based in McKinney, Texas, he blends practical engineering with a knack for translating web-platform capabilities into better developer and user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Plano East Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chantastic/sites
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the repository, specifically addressing the visual presentation and user experience. Their contributions included fixing dark mode theming, modifying the layout, and adding a favicon to the AVO CSS methodology homepage. These changes involved directly manipulating HTML and CSS to enhance the site's appearance and user interface.
BenDMyers/Advent_Of_Code_2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:97 commits, 83 pushes, 3 comments in 27 days
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