Benjamin Barrell
CEO at Phrasing
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Barrell is a serial entrepreneur and Clojure-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building polished front-ends and product-led web apps from Amsterdam. He currently leads Phrasing, a truly multilingual language-learning startup that blends NLP and UX-first design to serve polyglots, after incubating products and consulting through his studio Spruce Digital. Deep expertise in React and front-end animation pairs with pragmatic back-end know-how, enabling him to prototype full-stack features rapidly and iterate with language experts. He has a track record at fast-moving teams (Pitch, Life.io, Under Armour) and a history with Toptal that reflects consistent freelance excellence. Outside of work he’s a language enthusiast, amateur photographer, piano student and a self-described digital minimalist—qualities that shape Phrasing’s focus on clarity and curated learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DogTags, Web Development, DogTags, Web Development at Dev BootCamp
French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Croatian, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi
Stackoverflow
2,960reputation
390kreached
15answers
51questions
Github Skills (105)
trello10
declarative10
collaboration10
markdown10
javascript10
clojure10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
git10
graph10
org-mode10
privacy10
frontend10
react10
clojurescript10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bendyorke/bendyorke.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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bendyorke/react-simple-autocomplete
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 15 pushes in 2 months
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