Ben Roberts
Technical Lead at Headstrong Internet Services Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Roberts is a Technical Lead and senior web application developer with 11 years of professional experience, blending deep PHP and JavaScript expertise with cloud infrastructure, DevOps and Linux systems administration. Based in London but with strong ties to the French Alps, he combines hands-on architecture and consultancy work with long-term entrepreneurial experience running hosting and web businesses. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to PHP IMAP tooling and maintaining Symfony/Bootstrap integration, reflecting a practical focus on maintainability and backward-compatible upgrades. Ben has delivered public-facing and internal projects at scale—drawing on early BBC experience—and continues to bridge application development, operations and hosting for reliable production systems. He brings a musician’s attention to detail from a Music Technology degree, applied to pragmatic, well-documented engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Of Higher Education, Electronic & Computer Engineering, Certificate Of Higher Education, Electronic & Computer Engineering at Leeds UniversityBachelor of Science - BS (hons), Music Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS (hons), Music Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University
Github Skills (11)
html10
php10
bootstra10
twig10
bootstrap10
back-end-development10
imap10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
templating9
documentation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
braincrafted/bootstrap-bundle
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
BraincraftedBootstrapBundle integrates Bootstrap into Symfony2 by providing templates, Twig extensions, services and commands.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on fixing Twig deprecation warnings within the Symfony Bootstrap bundle. Their commits involved replacing deprecated Twig functions and improving the compatibility of the templates. They also addressed a typo and made adjustments to improve the functionality of the form rendering and menu elements. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and updating the existing codebase for compatibility with newer Twig versions.
bootstrapsymfonytwigtwig-extension
tedious/Fetch
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
An IMAP library for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the `tedious/fetch` repository, which appears to be an IMAP library for PHP. Their commits primarily involved modifying backend logic and code structure within the `src/Fetch` directory. The changes focused on adding methods for accessing mailbox properties, fixing indentation inconsistencies, and correcting docblock return types. These contributions suggest a focus on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the library.
imapphp
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