Ben Stocks
Founder at Solen Labs
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Stocks is a founder and multidisciplinary technologist with 12 years of experience turning product ideas into shipped software and businesses from Los Angeles. He blends hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile Reaction Commerce platform around product variant pricing and UI—with operational leadership across startups and product teams. As founder of Solen Labs and former Director of Product and Operations at Reaction (acquired by Mailchimp), he pairs obsessive learning and research habits with pragmatic product delivery. His background spans design, photography, and technical operations, giving him a rare mix of user-centered sensibility and systems-level thinking that drives both UX improvements and backend correctness.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Fine Art, Photography, Bachelor of Science - BS Fine Art, Photography at Southern Oregon UniversityAssociate of Arts - AA Economics, Math, Associate of Arts - AA Economics, Math at Santa Rosa Junior College
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Github Skills (14)
inventory-management-system10
javascript10
coffeescript10
inventory-management10
ecommerce10
meteor9
react9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
css8
html8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reactioncommerce/reaction
May 2014 - Jan 2015
Project has been discontinued ////// Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 17 comments, 46 issues in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the product detail and product grid features within the Reaction Commerce platform. They implemented features related to variant pricing, including price range calculations and display, while also integrating with and utilizing the existing product variant system. Additionally, they made significant changes to the product variant form and grid display, modifying the quantity input field and associated validation rules. The user also addressed several bug fixes related to parent/child variant relationships and quantity calculations.
dockergraphqlkubernetesmailchimpnodejs
bstocks/meteor-bourbon
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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