Ben Rowe
Staff Engineer at Cover Genius
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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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—frequently 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
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Github Skills (77)
lumen-framework10
javascript10
html10
trello-api10
trim10
css10
php10
internet-explorer10
event-handling9
jquery9
laravel9
rest9
dom-events9
restful-api9
google-api9
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
mysqlsqlite
benrowe/website
Aug 2016 - Jun 2026
Personal portfolio website
Contributions:135 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years
cssjavascriptreactpersonal-portfolio-website
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