Ben Swennen
Product Lead at Pexip
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolBen Swennen is a product-minded software engineer and current Product Lead at Pexip with 11 years of experience building web and mobile products from MVP to scale. He blends front-end UX sensitivity with back-end pragmatism, having shipped Ruby on Rails, React/Redux and Scala-based systems across startups and accelerator-backed ventures. At Rialto he led development of an MVP that attracted strategic investment, and his hands-on background includes building APIs, React Native apps and full-stack platforms. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he excels at translating customer needs into polished product experiences while mentoring engineers. Off-hours he balances creative and team pursuits on the basketball court and guitar, reflecting a collaborative, user-focused leadership style. A bilingual technical graduate, he brings both product intuition and deep engineering chops to cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Language Interpretation and Translation (German - English), Language Interpretation and Translation (German - English) at HOGENTBachelor of Applied Information Technology Computer Programming, Bachelor of Applied Information Technology Computer Programming at Hogeschool Gent
Dutch, English, French, German
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Github Skills (95)
testing10
react-component10
dates10
datepicker10
react-dates10
accessibility10
react10
react-components9
javascript9
angular9
html9
ui-components9
experiences9
authentication9
react-native9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RLTO/rialto-icons
Dec 2018 - Apr 2023
Set of icons used in Rialto projects
Contributions:24 PRs, 42 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 4 months
feather-iconsfaviconicons
BenSwennen/laptop
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 2 months
a-shellmobile-developmentset-upshell-scriptmacos
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