Benjamin Atkin
Founder at ResourcesCo
United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Atkin is a founder and hands-on CTO with 17 years of experience building tools for working with data and APIs at Resources.co. He combines back-end engineering and QA rigor—evidenced by contributions to widely used HTTP client tooling and modernization of classic Node.js libraries—with a focus on maintainable, modern JavaScript. Based in the United States and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Northern Arizona University, he blends product-minded engineering with operational discipline. Outside of code he’s curious and active—running, reading, traveling and chasing the perfect cup of coffee—which informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to developer tooling.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
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Github Skills (12)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
http10
nodejs10
s610
javascript10
parsing10
testing10
moodle6
firefox6
scorm6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
request/request
Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the testing and improvement of the `request/request` library. They implemented and updated tests to cover various functionalities, including JSON parsing, PUT requests, and multipart form data. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to handling content types, boundary injections for multipart requests, and allowed empty strings to be parsed, improving the robustness of the HTTP client.
apihttp-requesthttp-clientjavascriptsimplified
shama/gaze
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
:crystal_ball: A globbing fs.watch wrapper built from the best parts of other fine watch libs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on modernizing the codebase of the `gaze` library by updating it to use modern JavaScript features. They updated the code to be compatible with newer versions of Node.js by replacing `var` with `const` and `let`, arrow functions, and eliminating instances of `self = this`. They also addressed code style issues, corrected formatting, and improved overall code maintainability.
crystal-ballcrystalpartsfinefs-watch
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