Benjamin Baron
Founding Engineer at Voicepanel
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Baron is a founding engineer and seasoned full‑stack developer with 15 years of experience building products from solo apps to multi‑platform SDKs and production fleet systems. He shipped Photos for Mac 1.0 at Apple early in his career, created the long-lived iSub music streamer, and later led cross‑platform SDK architecture and teams at mParticle. Comfortable across Go, Swift/Objective‑C, TypeScript/React and backend services, he moves fluidly between hands‑on coding and technical leadership, including building a fleet management MVP and custom PiKVM integrations. An active open‑source contributor, he has fixed low‑level build and font tooling issues in projects like freetype‑gl and ported macOS UI code for the Reicast emulator. Based in Boca Raton, FL, he combines startup grit—raising product funding and founding companies—with deep platform expertise on iOS and macOS. Notably, he taught himself software engineering and scaled from solo developer to engineering lead across distributed teams and products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Self taught
Stackoverflow
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uibutton
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ios
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swift
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debugging
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Github Skills (41)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
layout10
freetype10
user-interface10
c1110
device-emulation10
c1710
macos10
opengl10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
qr-code10
javascript9
fonts9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
skmp/reicast-emulator
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Reicast was a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 17 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin focused on porting code from Swift to Objective-C, indicating macOS platform development, specifically for the emulator's user interface. They made changes to several files related to the emulator's user interface, including the main application delegate, view initialization, and input handling. The user also fixed building errors related to OpenMP support, header paths, and X11 imports, and made updates to C function calls within the codebase. Finally, the user refactored parts of the macOS codebase to improve its structure.
gameboyemulatorarcadedreamcastgenesis
rougier/freetype-gl
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
OpenGL text using one vertex buffer, one texture and FreeType
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's commits primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the `makefont.c` utility within the freetype-gl project. They addressed issues related to compilation with `clang++`, corrected parameter handling for texture sizes, and removed commented-out code. Additionally, the user added font and texture size information to the header comments to aid with understanding. These contributions highlight their involvement in the project's build process and utility functionality.
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