Ben Steward
Founder And Lead Developer at Strafford Media
Souderton, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBen Steward is a founder and lead developer with nine years of hands-on experience building practical web applications and APIs, currently running 8th Day Development while serving as CTO at Strafford Media. He blends full-stack expertise—from Angular and Node.js-driven stacks to database and deployment concerns—with a pragmatic focus on amplifying clients' productivity and impact. Previously he shipped product work at Snapyr and WizeHive and cut his teeth on full-stack stacks like Angular 5, RethinkDB, and Express. Known among peers as a "syntactic sugar addict," he enjoys crafting clean, expressive code and occasionally experiments with playful side projects that sharpen his tooling instincts. Based in Souderton, PA, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a background in leadership and teaching that helps him translate user needs into useful software.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bible/Biblical Studies, Bachelor's degree, Bible/Biblical Studies at Northland International University
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Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
realtime10
authentication10
hasura10
web-performance10
visual-studio10
apollo-client10
rest-api10
backend10
hosting10
haskell10
auth0-js10
hook10
javascript10
graphql-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tehpsalmist/play-the-mind
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Frontend for The Mind Card Game (Unofficial)
Contributions:195 PRs, 215 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactfrontendcard-gamemind
tehpsalmist/parcel-plugin-copy-files
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Copies a list of files straight into your dist directory
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year
directorydistcopies
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