Ben Searle
Senior Frontend Developer at Goodnotes
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Searle is a Senior Frontend Developer and founder-turned-CTO with 11 years of experience building performant, scalable web applications and AI-driven customer solutions. He has led frontend teams through major refactors and product launches—achieving up to 10x performance improvements—while mentoring engineers and introducing developer workflows that boost productivity. As co-founder of Chatica he designed bespoke AI chatbots and trained LLMs to extract structured data from unstructured documents, blending UX-first frontend engineering with practical ML applications. Now based in London and currently at Goodnotes, he combines hands-on implementation skills with product instincts from roles across fintech, retail, and enterprise systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who turns complex business requirements into reliable, human-centred interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MicroMasters (edX), Digital Product Management, MicroMasters (edX), Digital Product Management at Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at City St George’s, University of LondonA Levels, A Levels at Prince William SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
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Github Skills (12)
camera9
cordova-plugin9
energy8
qr-code8
cordova8
scanner7
ionic-native6
websocket6
proxy6
ionic6
angular6
browser5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bensearle/Kinect-FYP
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:121 commits, 81 pushes in 5 months
bensearle/bensearle.github.io
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:67 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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