Ben St John
Staff Software Engineer at Apply Digital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen St John is a Staff Software Engineer based in Canada with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, now leading web initiatives at Apply Digital. He has steered complex rebuilds and migrations—serving as lead JavaScript developer on a vessel management system—and boosted performance by up to 60% through on-demand loading strategies. Ben is proficient across React, React Native, mapping libraries (Leaflet, Mapbox), Solr/Firebase integrations, and cloud tooling including Google Cloud, and regularly works at the command line on Linux servers. He pairs hands-on engineering and mentorship with practical product focus, having shipped multiple apps to Google Play and the App Store while improving developer workflows and deployment reliability. A wireless and mobile application development specialist by training, he brings a pragmatic blend of front-end polish and backend API design to sports entertainment and enterprise projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Github Skills (76)
catalog9
api9
backend9
immigration9
open-data9
credit9
django8
ckan8
publish8
django-rest-framework8
metadata7
iso7
commons7
dms7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bensinjin/rgbit
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:52 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
bensinjin/wordz
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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