Ben Squire
Back End Developer at StructureFlow
Harborough, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Squire is a pragmatic back-end developer with 13 years’ experience designing and rebuilding scalable systems from greenfield projects to full platform migrations. He combines deep PHP and system-architecture expertise with hands-on performance tuning, database design and queue-based processing patterns, and has repeatedly introduced CI/CD, testing and TypeScript practices to raise team standards. As Avion’s first hire and former Chief Architect roles show, he thrives in small cross-functional teams, delivering integrations (Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps), serverless/webhook systems and high-throughput SSO and media pipelines. He mentors engineers, enforces best practices, and pairs defensive, typed PHP with pragmatic frontend work (React) — even contributing to open-source editor improvements that preserve code-block formatting. Based in Leicestershire, he’s now focused on influencing systems architecture and taking on new technical challenges that span design through implementation.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE Information Technology, PGCE Information Technology at Sheffield Hallam University
English
Stackoverflow
261reputation
24kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
shadcn-ui9
slate9
ai7
wysiwyg7
flowjs6
e-mail6
elasticsearch6
guid6
database6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
udecode/plate
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
A rich-text editor powered by AI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the HTML serialization functionality within the `plate` rich-text editor. Their commits include the addition of an option to disable whitespace stripping during HTML serialization, which affects the rendering of code blocks. The user also fixed an optional parameter and added a language class to the code block's `<code>` element. Furthermore, the user implemented tests for these changes and addressed code formatting issues.
plugin-systemrich-textwysiwyg-editorrichtextjavascript
bensquire/php-image-optim
Dec 2013 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 51 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 7 months
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