Ben聽Rowe
Staff Engineer at Cover Genius
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Rowe is a pragmatic Staff Engineer based in Sydney with over two decades of professional engineering experience and a 13-year focused track record delivering full-stack web platforms. He excels at application and database architecture, team leadership, and modernising legacy systems鈥攆requently using PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, and increasingly adopting Go and microservices. Ben has led technical teams and product modernisations across startups and scale-ups, from bootstrapping SaaS and IoT orchestration to introducing CI/CD, GraphQL APIs, and infrastructure-as-code for scalable operations. He pairs hands-on coding with a strong usability sensibility, aiming to build software people enjoy using as much as he enjoys building it. An entrepreneurial maker at heart (Github bio: "building things"), he balances shipping practical solutions with mentoring and process improvements to raise team craft.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Tyndale School
English
Stackoverflow
28,598reputation
6.0mreached
339answers
13questions
mysql
top-5%
trim
top-1%
event-handling
top-5%
regex
top-5%
dom-events
top-5%
google-api
top-5%
Github Skills (84)
javascript10
html10
trello-api10
trim10
css10
forms10
php10
internet-explorer10
event-handling9
jquery9
dom-events9
google-api9
regex9
radio-buttons9
xhtml9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
benrowe/mysql-to-sqlite3
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Dockerize https://github.com/techouse/mysql-to-sqlite3
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 3 PRs in 9 days
mysqldockerizesqlsqlite3docker
benrowe/formatter
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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