Benjamin Davies
Graduate Software Engineer
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBenjamin Davies is a Graduate Software Engineer based in Tauranga, New Zealand with nine years of hands-on experience across internships and developer roles at Allied Telesis, LawVu, and the University of Canterbury. He blends back-end focus and a commitment to code clarity—evidenced by documentation contributions to the widely used PlantUML project—with practical product experience from university research and industry placements. A problem-solver known for teamwork and mentorship from Scouting leadership, he brings disciplined, award-winning persistence (Chief and Queen’s Scout) to engineering challenges. Musically inclined, Benjamin plays guitar and saxophone, a creative outlet that complements his analytical approach to debugging and design. He is building on a BE in Software Engineering while transitioning into a full-time engineering role, eager to turn well-documented, maintainable code into reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software at University of CanterburyNCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 3 at Mount Maunganui College
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Github Skills (13)
regular-expression10
javas10
java10
documentation9
uml8
typescript-generics6
html6
css6
nodejs6
typescript6
javascript6
constructor6
axios6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
plantuml/plantuml
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Generate diagrams from textual description
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to documenting and improving the codebase, focusing on the `net.sourceforge.plantuml.regex` and `net.sourceforge.plantuml` packages. Their work involved adding detailed documentation for classes related to regular expressions and documenting the core flow of the PlantUML source file processing. The commits demonstrate a focus on code clarity and maintainability through documentation.
diagramsmermaidsequence-diagramumlc4model
Benjamin-Davies/atari-breakout
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
An Atari Breakout game written in typescript
Contributions:10 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
gameatarijavascriptbreakout-gamebreakout
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