Summary
Ben Stone is a Senior Front End Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping enterprise-grade UIs for both startups and large companies. He specializes in Angular, React and TypeScript, and has repeatedly led migrations and new-stack initiatives—most notably upgrading AngularJS apps to modern Angular/TypeScript and bootstrapping a React/TS stack at FireEye. Ben blends hands-on implementation with architecture and process work, building front-end infrastructure, GraphQL consumption patterns, and team-wide testing and code-style practices. He focuses on performance and maintainability, having tracked down memory leaks and introduced patterns for data-grid efficiency and cancelable queries. Based in Burlingame, CA, he pairs a creative humanities background with rigorous engineering training from Hack Reactor and NYU, which helps him translate UX needs into robust, testable code. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful code reviews, documentation, and practical seeds that speed up new project starts.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
BA, Film & Television Studies & English Literature, BA, Film & Television Studies & English Literature at Roehampton University
Certificate in Web Development, Certificate in Web Development at NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies