Ben Ogle
Distinguished Software Engineer at Ironclad
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ogle is a Distinguished Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building developer-focused products, AI platforms, and polished front-end experiences from San Francisco. He founded and led Anvil, a document automation toolkit used across regulated industries, and previously built and sold Easel to GitHub, where he became a staff engineer on the Atom editor. Ben blends full-stack and UI expertise—his open-source work on Atom and numerous plugins shows deep fluency in theming, UX, and build tooling, while contributions to electron/rebuild reflect comfort with native build systems. At Ironclad he now architects the internal platform powering AI assistants and agents, translating research into production-grade developer tools. Collected across startups and product companies, his career shows a consistent focus on shipping delightful developer and document workflows, plus a knack for turning UI polish into durable platform improvements.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
javascript
Github Skills (35)
atom-editor10
markdown10
styles10
javascript10
coffeescript10
package-management10
stylesheets10
theming10
testing10
css10
autocomplete10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
markdown-it10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
atom/autocomplete-plus
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
View and insert possible completions in the editor while typing
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 482 commits, 144 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the autocomplete-plus plugin. Their contributions involved refactoring code, removing unnecessary elements, and addressing issues. The user implemented new features, like enhanced display options including, but not limited to, HTML display elements, as well as the ability to handle the new suggestion-based types, and modified existing ones to improve code maintainability.
atom-pluginrevit-apicompletionseditorinsert
atom/atom-dark-ui
Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
The default dark ui theme for Atom
Role in this project:UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:66 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the UI theme by making numerous styling adjustments and adding new visual components. They implemented progress bars, tooltips, and various text and color styles, including hover states. Their work also involved fine-tuning existing elements like tabs, key-bindings, and scrollbars to improve the visual appearance and user experience of the Atom dark UI theme.
dark-themedark-modedark-ui-themeatomdark
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