Ben Winding
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolBen Winding is a pragmatic software engineer and former lead architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-native web apps, single-page interfaces, CAD systems and embedded solutions from Adelaide, Australia. He has led product development at ResVu—owning the FMLink facility management app—and contributed full-stack open-source tooling such as a Firebase data provider for react-admin that handles auth, pagination and file uploads. Trained as a mechanical and mechatronics engineer with a Master’s in Computing and Innovation, he blends systems thinking from hardware and structural design into robust software architecture. Comfortable as both a collaborator and a solo contributor, Ben thrives on turning complex system problems into practical, user-focused products. Outside work he’s run regional sports events and governance, demonstrating hands-on leadership and stakeholder negotiation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master of Computing and Innovation, Master’s Degree, Master of Computing and Innovation at University of AdelaideHigh School, High School at Immanuel College, South AustraliaBachelor of Engineering (Hons), Mechanical and Mechatronics, 5.07 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Mechanical and Mechatronics, 5.07 GPA at University of South Australia
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Github Skills (26)
user-authentication10
authentication10
firestore10
firebase10
react10
javascript9
npm9
nextjs9
docker-compose9
typescript9
google-cloud-firestore9
docker9
vue9
file-upload9
nodejs9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
benwinding/react-admin-firebase
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
A firebase data provider for the react-admin framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 427 commits, 77 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on building a Firebase-based data provider for the react-admin framework. Their contributions involved integrating and implementing features leveraging Firebase services such as Firestore and Authentication. They also worked on adding user authentication, implementing pagination, and various CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete). Further, they added and refined features for handling file uploads, including storage and file paths, making the project more versatile.
reactreact-adminadmindata-providerfirestore
benwinding/react-admin-import-csv
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
A csv file import button for react-admin
Contributions:9 reviews, 207 commits, 57 PRs in 2 years 10 months
csvreactreact-adminbulkimportadmin
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