Ben Rothman
Software Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBen Rothman is a detail-oriented full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience building maintainable, modular web applications, currently contributing at Sprout Social in Evanston, Illinois. He has a strong track record of improving developer experience and code quality, demonstrated by substantive open-source contributions to a Node.js Sass linting tool where he added new formatting rules, expanded tests and documentation, and refactored core code. Comfortable across front- and back-end concerns, he brings practical product experience from startups and education technology at Shmoop alongside academic research roots from Northwestern. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, test-driven improvements that reduce technical debt and enforce consistent style across teams. He pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with an eye for maintainability, often addressing problems that make long-term collaboration and scaling smoother.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at New Trier High SchoolBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (6)
sass10
enforcement10
javascript10
testing10
develop9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sasstools/sass-lint
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Pure Node.js Sass linting
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 27 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality and maintainability of a Sass linting tool. They implemented a new rule for variable name formatting, along with corresponding tests, which is crucial for code style consistency. Furthermore, the user expanded the test suite with documentation and additional test cases for existing rules and also created new rules for mixin, placeholder, and function name format. The user also made several commits to refactor and maintain the existing codebase.
lintingnodejssass
benthemonkey/sass-lint
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:109 pushes, 29 branches, 2 comments in 4 months
sassnode-jscsslintingnodejs
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