Ben Schmidt
Software Developer at Edu-Kingdom College
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schmidt is a Melbourne-based software developer with a decade of professional experience combining engineering roles and educational practice. Currently at UBank, he pairs production software development with a background in teaching and tutoring, which informs his clear communication and mentoring style. His contributions to the well-known foliojs/pdfkit project demonstrate a practical commitment to accessibility—adding tagged PDF support, structure trees, and metadata to make generated PDFs more usable for assistive technologies. Trained in computer engineering and theoretical physics, and holding advanced qualifications in secondary education, he brings rigorous analytical skills and an educator’s patience to complex technical problems. Ben’s mix of full-stack contributions, system administration experience, and classroom teaching makes him adept at translating user needs into maintainable, accessible software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Single Subjects, New Testament Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Single Subjects, New Testament Greek, Biblical Hebrew at Ridley CollegeHigh School, Mathematics, Physics, English, French, Accounting, High School, Mathematics, Physics, English, French, Accounting at Balwyn High SchoolThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (5)
accessibility10
pdf-generation10
nodejs10
javascript10
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
foliojs/pdfkit
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 21 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility features of the PDF generation library. Their contributions included adding support for tagged PDF features, such as marked content, structure trees, and accessibility-related metadata. They integrated these features into the demo, demonstrating how to create accessible PDFs. Furthermore, the user fixed linter warnings and removed unnecessary constructors, contributing to code quality and maintainability.
javascriptpdf-generation
insightfuls/better-https-proxy-agent
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
An agent for HTTPS through an HTTP(S) proxy server using the CONNECT method
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
proxy-server
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