Ben Styles
Senior Software Engineer at MealsUp
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolBen Styles is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building full‑stack web and mobile applications, currently specialising in ReScript and React from Barcelona. He combines strong front- and back-end skills—functional programming, static typing, automated testing, Terraform and AWS—with a track record of shipping production apps and running his own products like MealsUp. An active open-source contributor, Ben has improved Flow type safety across prominent repos and fixed subtle typing and runtime issues in the widely used react-native-firebase project. A practiced public speaker and mentor, he moves seamlessly between crafting developer tooling, leading teams and hands‑on debugging, bringing an editor’s attention to detail informed by a humanities background.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Aylesbury Grammar SchoolMaster of Arts (MA) English Literature (British and Commonwealth), Master of Arts (MA) English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at University of Leeds
Spanish, French
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Github Skills (33)
libstdc10
libc10
javascript10
lib10
react-native10
flow-control10
libudev10
coffeescript10
work-flow10
flow-typed10
libdispatch10
databind10
type-definition10
databinding10
workflow-automation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mikeric/rivets
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
A lightweight data binding library.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 59 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the functionality of the data binding library. They made changes to the `src/binders.coffee`, `src/util.coffee`, and `src/bindings.coffee` files, indicating work on core library features. Furthermore, the user integrated formatter arguments within the project. They also contributed component binding tests to improve the quality of the library.
databindingjavascripttemplate-engine
flow-typed/flow-typed
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
A central repository for Flow library definitions
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying Flow type definitions for various libraries. They added Flow type definitions for the 'rivets' library, including tests and examples to demonstrate usage. Furthermore, the user enhanced the type definitions for the 'recompose' library by declaring direct exports and also updated 'deep-freeze-strict' and 'react-navigation' definitions. These contributions improve type safety and developer experience within projects using these libraries.
libdefsflowtypedefinitionscli
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