Ben Phelps
Principal Software Engineer at Flappyware LLC
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBen Phelps is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience blending low-level systems work (assembly, C) with modern web stacks like React and TypeScript. He has led backend and infrastructure efforts at scale, optimizing costs and performance for large video and data platforms, and now architects MV P-driven products and integrations. As co-founder of Flappyware he maintains and modernizes legacy systems, while exploring OS-level security and ethical reverse engineering. His open-source work includes a customizable Next.js-based homepage/dashboard integrating diverse services, demonstrating full-stack polish and internationalization. Based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, he pairs practical operational expertise with a curiosity for hardware and white-hat security that surfaces in both commercial and personal projects.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Muskogee Highschool
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
nextjs10
web-development10
react10
i18next9
html9
css9
api8
docker8
dockers8
openweathermap7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gethomepage/homepage
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 16 reviews, 382 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben's initial contributions focused on setting up a basic Next.js application based on the standard "create-next-app" template. They then integrated external libraries and components to enhance the application with features such as a weather widget, a search component, and integrations with various services like Emby, Tautulli, and others. Furthermore, the user refactored the service widgets and updated the website to use next-i18next for internationalization, added a theme and colour switcher and also improved the UI to enhance usability.
apireacthighly-customizabledockercustomizable
benphelps/phelt
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:89 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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