Ben Russert
Senior Software Engineer at BombBomb
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBen Russert is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications at BombBomb, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior and contributes on the innovation team. He blends product-focused frontend work with backend refactors, drawing on notable open-source contributions to the popular nteract projects—improving interactive code tooling, UI output handling, and modernizing code with libraries like immer. Prior to engineering he developed analytical rigor in finance roles at Western Union, Walgreens, and Aon, which informs his data-driven problem solving and attention to maintainability. Based in Colorado Springs, he favors pragmatic refactors and UX-first enhancements that make developer workflows smoother, a trait visible in his contributions to editor-integrated interactive computing.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Illinois at Chicago
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Github Skills (24)
atom-editor10
javascript10
react-components10
react-component10
immer10
react10
refactor9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
refactoring9
monorepo9
jupyter-notebook8
notebook8
data-science8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nteract/hydrogen
Dec 2016 - Oct 2020
:atom: Run code interactively, inspect data, and plot. All the power of Jupyter kernels, inside your favorite text editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 2 reviews, 163 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the nteract/hydrogen project by implementing features and fixing bugs in the Atom text editor plugin. They focused on improving the user interface, such as allowing markdown and HTML code inspection results and refining the output display. A significant portion of their work involved refactoring code related to code management, including functions for code block identification, comment handling, and cell manipulation. They also worked on improvements to the watch sidebar and kernel picker.
nteractpythonjupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebookinspect
nteract/nteract
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
📘 The interactive computing suite for you! ✨
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 99 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on refactoring and updating the codebase, particularly within the `packages/records` directory. They removed dependencies like `immutable.js` and `immutable import` and refactored existing code to use `immer`. The commits also involved fixing output types and updating the file `index.ts`. Further commits included changes to the data explorer features.
nteractdesktop-applicationmonoreporeactpython
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