Ben Smith
Full Stack Engineer at Thuma
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Smith is a Full Stack Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of hands-on experience building web and developer-facing tools. Currently at Thuma, he bridges frontend and backend work while maintaining a pragmatic, builder-first mindset—aptly summarized on GitHub as "Reject software engineer, return to Webmaster." An active open-source contributor, he’s enhanced Neovim’s popular telescope.nvim plugin with layout mirroring and new git actions, showing a knack for thoughtful UX improvements in developer tooling. A UC Irvine Informatics graduate, Ben combines practical product focus with low-level plugin work, often favoring elegant, user-visible features over unnecessary complexity.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
lua10
git10
neovim-plugin10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
neovim9
nvim9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Neovim plugin "telescope.nvim," focusing on enhancing layout strategies and adding new features. They implemented a "mirror" option for horizontal, vertical, and bottom_pane layouts, allowing users to flip the display of elements within the UI. Further contributions include adding a new git action for branch creation and checkout, including associated documentation and functionality for git operations. They also addressed documentation issues.
nvim-lualuapickneovimnvim
smithbm2316/bensmith.sh
Nov 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 173 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years
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