Ben Tesser
Technical Lead at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Tesser is a Technical Lead with 13 years of web engineering experience, currently shaping integrity and safety experiences at Facebook. He brings deep full-stack expertise—building backend services, custom CDN modules, REST and WebSocket APIs—while also driving frontend frameworks, performance tuning, accessibility, and security best practices. A pragmatic advocate for standards, OOCSS/Atomic CSS and SCSS, Ben combines hands-on coding across Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Hack, C#, and NodeJS with leadership in high-impact product areas like community integrity. He contributes to open-source tooling such as the ng-inspector AngularJS extension, showing attention to cross-browser consistency and bug fixes. Outside code, his interests in ethics, law, and public policy inform a product-minded approach to making large platforms fairer and more legitimate.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, New Media, BA, New Media at Purchase College, SUNYThe George Washington University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
browser-extension10
debugging9
testing8
breeze6
jquery6
rest6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rev087/ng-inspector
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
The AngularJS inspector pane for your browser
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on bug fixes and ensuring consistency across different browser extensions for the AngularJS inspector tool. They addressed an issue related to a function argument, which involved code modifications within the core service file, Chrome, Safari, and testing files. The commits show changes across multiple files, indicating a concentrated effort to resolve a specific bug and its implications across different parts of the project.
angularjs
btesser/DefinitelyTyped
May 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
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