Ben Shell
Front-End Development Manager at Accenture Song
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolBen Shell is a Front-End Development Manager with 13 years of experience architecting and shipping modern web and mobile applications, currently leading front-end efforts at Accenture Song. He blends hands-on React, React Native, and GraphQL development with team leadership, build system evaluation, and cloud infrastructure work to deliver testable, production-ready systems across distributed teams. His background spans CMS and large-site builds (Drupal, Ruby on Rails, MEAN stack) and operational tooling using Docker, Chef, and AWS, giving him full-stack fluency and an emphasis on maintainable, configurable architectures. A creative tinkerer off-hours—building LEGO, metalworking projects, and a backyard garden railroad—he brings practical problem-solving and a passion for teaching, mentoring students and colleagues alike. Notably, he champions rapid prototyping that evolves into reusable libraries, balancing speed of innovation with long-term code quality.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoAssociate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at Mendocino Community College
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Github Skills (81)
gatsby10
fastest10
graphql10
react10
tidy9
compiler9
frontend9
static-site-generator9
directive8
theming8
react-static8
static-site8
typescript8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benshell/seahornet.org
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
benshell/The-Personal-Page
Nov 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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