Ben Torell
Full Stack Web Developer at altalang
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Torell is a Full Stack Web Developer based in Atlanta with 12 years of experience building web applications across Python, MySQL, React, and Elm. He blends back-end reliability with front-end polish, shipping pragmatic solutions that scale for real users. An experienced open-source contributor, he improved localization support for the widely used OBS project—adding Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali locales and streamlining build-time handling of localized resources. Comfortable across the stack, Ben brings a detail-oriented approach to internationalization and developer tooling that often surfaces non-obvious user-facing improvements.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
authentication10
internationalization10
batchfile10
script10
localization10
batch10
crowdin10
c-language9
php9
cprogramming-language9
functional-programming6
currency6
paradigms6
forms6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jp9000/OBS
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
Open Broadcaster Software (Deprecated: See OBS Studio repository instead)
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on improving the localization support within the OBS project. They modified the locale file format, updated language strings by incorporating changes from the Crowdin platform, and added new language support (Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali). Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the build script to manage and copy localized resources correctly.
obsstreamingobs-studiobroadcastervideo
dodgepong/netrunner-cards-json-dodgepong
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Android: Netrunner LCG card data in JSON format. Used by http://netrunnerdb.com.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
lcgandroid-netrunnerandroidjson-formatdata-card
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