Ben Tranter
Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBen Tranter is a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and polished front-end experiences from Thunder Bay, Ontario. At DigitalOcean he’s advanced CLI and API ecosystems—contributing core features to doctl, godo and DropletKit around volumes, Kubernetes kubeconfig handling, and managed database workflows—while also owning build and OS-specific DevOps fixes. Comfortable across Go, Ruby and modern front-end stacks, he pairs backend systems thinking with UX-minded template work (notably on AMP Start galleries). He’s progressed through increasingly senior roles at DigitalOcean, demonstrating both deep implementation skills and product-minded architecture. An alumnus of Lakehead University in Mathematics and Computer Science, he quietly blends open-source craftsmanship with pragmatic production engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Lakehead University
French, English
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Github Skills (43)
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digitalocean-api10
kubernetes10
volumes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ampl10
css10
command-line-interface10
digitalocean10
responsive-design10
user-authentication10
authentication10
google-amp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/droplet_kit
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
DropletKit is the official DigitalOcean API client for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 26 reviews, 49 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to version updates and the addition of partial support for managed databases. Their commits show modifications to versioning files and the introduction of new functionalities related to database cluster management, including creation, resizing, migration, and maintenance. They also made code changes to facilitate the handling of database users and connection pools, indicating a focus on backend API development and integration with the DigitalOcean API. These changes reflect an expansion of the library's database functionalities.
digitalocean-apirubydigitaloceancloudapi
digitalocean/godo
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
DigitalOcean Go API client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 101 reviews, 95 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the DigitalOcean Go API client, making updates to the library's versioning and dependencies. Their commits focused on upgrading the Go version and bumping the godo library's version. They also added functionality to interact with the DigitalOcean API, specifically adding methods related to database firewall rules, Redis eviction policies and kubeconfig functionality. Further commits included refactoring code and adding new convenience methods to initialize the client using an API token.
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