Ben Rooney
Technical Director at Apply Digital
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorBen Rooney is a seasoned technical director based in Amsterdam with 25+ years across mobile, web, e-commerce and social media technology and 11 years in senior leadership roles. He combines hands-on engineering roots with executive experience leading EMEA technology teams and operating as CTO and managing director for digital agencies and product companies. At Apply Digital he now steers technical strategy and delivery across complex client portfolios, after scaling engineering and product teams at FITMO and POSSIBLE. Known for bridging client services and technology, he excels at turning commercial requirements into robust, maintainable platforms. Comfortable in both startup and agency contexts, he brings a pragmatic mix of architecture, delivery and people leadership. An often-underappreciated strength is his longevity across rapidly changing web and mobile stacks, giving him deep institutional knowledge of what scales and what doesn’t.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (103)
windows-phone10
docker-desktop10
font-size10
brackets10
media-queries10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
design-tool10
notification-service10
responsive-design10
wns10
webpush10
matchmedia10
breakpoints10
push-notifications9
sign-in-with-apple9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fitmo/fitbit-api-ruby-client
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
ikbenben/Response-for-Brackets
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
responsive-designcssdesign-tooldesign-systembrackets
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