Ben Tran
Software Engineer at Tiny
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Tran is a software engineer based in Adelaide with a background in front-end development and AWS, bringing over eight years building web sites and apps across industries and four years of focused professional experience. Currently at Tiny, he contributes to the widely used TinyMCE editor, improving media plugin behavior and mobile UX while replacing deprecated APIs—evidence of hands-on full-stack refactoring in a popular open-source project. Previously at Myriota, he delivered frontend solutions for IoT-related products, complementing his Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Adelaide. A continuous learner who prioritizes quality, Ben blends pragmatic engineering with attention to cross-platform UI details and cloud-aware development.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
editors10
contenteditable10
javascript10
front-end-development10
editor10
rich-text-editor10
html9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tinymce/tinymce
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:373 reviews, 72 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the TinyMCE rich text editor's functionality by removing deprecated options from the media plugin and replacing disabled APIs with enabled ones. They also implemented various enhancements, including replacing properties related to enabling/disabling elements and refactoring the codebase. Furthermore, the user addressed several issues related to the editor's behavior, like the functionality of the context menu and the position of the notification area, particularly on mobile views.
vue-reactrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrichtext
tinymce/tinymce-angular-test-page
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Angular test page for QA
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
testinginterceptorsprotractorangular
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