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 (57)
notification-service10
responsive-design10
windows-phone10
webpush10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
oauth-client9
docker-desktop9
push-notifications9
wns9
rails9
pushy9
oauth9
html9
activerecord8
garmin8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brimelow/Response-for-Brackets
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Responsive design tool for Brackets
Contributions:140 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
responsive-design
fitmo/fitbit-api-ruby-client
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
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