Ben Shope
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Shope is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building products at Google from his base in Mountain View. He blends practical engineering with a pragmatic sense of humor—“It works on my machine”—while contributing to production-quality front-end projects. His open-source work on the popular uber/react-vis repo shows attention to detail in UI components, documentation, and test stability, including fixes for ref handling on stateless components. Ben is comfortable navigating both build processes and component-level bugs, making him effective at improving developer experience and release reliability. He brings a steady, hands-on approach to complex front-end issues and a track record of shipping maintainable code at scale.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
3,021reputation
2.3mreached
32answers
40questions
javascript
top-5%
unit-testing
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
react10
testing9
unit-testing9
charts8
charting8
chartjs8
visualization8
visualizations8
html6
ionic-framework6
angularjs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uber/react-vis
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Data Visualization Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 50 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on fixing tests and removing string references within the React-Vis project. Their work involved modifying various component files, specifically targeting the removal of references. Further contributions included addressing ref-related errors on stateless components, and updating documentation-related files. The user also made modifications related to documentation and build processes within the project.
reactchartcharting-libraryuberdata-visualization
benshope/Window-Pods
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 1 year 2 months
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