Ben Weier
Technical Lead at Rio Tinto
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Weier is a Technical Lead based in Queensland, Australia with 14 years of experience delivering front-end web applications across leisure, travel and enterprise sectors. He specializes in React, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, and has driven major platform migrations and React adoption across Flight Centre’s consumer brands. Comfortable in fast-paced Agile environments, he balances hands-on coding, architecture guidance and mentoring while coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholder delivery. At Cloudscene and Rio Tinto he progressed into tech lead roles, applying pragmatic standards and package decisions to scale front-end systems. An active contributor to UI-focused open-source work, his enhancements to the jQuery PowerTip plugin show an eye for polish and reusable visual theming. He combines strong product collaboration with a practical knack for turning design and marketing needs into maintainable front-end solutions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Creative Media, Interactive Media, Bachelor of Creative Media, Interactive Media at QANTM College
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
jquery10
css10
jquery-plugin9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stevenbenner/jquery-powertip
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
:speech_balloon: A jQuery plugin that creates hover tooltips.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the visual aspects of the jQuery PowerTip plugin. Their contributions included adding new color schemes by creating and modifying CSS files. They also implemented example files showcasing the different color themes, demonstrating their ability to create and integrate visual design elements within a JavaScript plugin. This suggests a focus on UI development and customization.
balloonjqueryjavascripttooltipsspeech-balloon
benweier/Schemr
Jul 2012 - Dec 2016
A color scheme selector for Sublime Text.
Contributions:105 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 6 months
schemetextmatesublimeschemessublime-package
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