Benjamin Duran
UI Engineering Wizard at ctrlwork.io
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Duran is a UI-focused software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building developer tooling, production web apps, and UX for complex systems. He has led front-end initiatives at Netflix—creating reusable UI libraries, an IDE plugin marketplace, and data-fetching tooling—and later applied that expertise to finance and blockchain UX at Citadel and Douro Labs. As founder of ctrlwork.io he builds delightful desktop workflow tools, blending product intuition with hands-on engineering across TypeScript and full-stack stacks. His background includes NASA JPL work visualizing spacecraft operations, reflecting a knack for turning complex data into usable interfaces. Colleagues describe him as responsible, outgoing, and adaptable—equally comfortable shipping monorepo tooling or panning-and-annotating image review components used by millions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Sc, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Sc at Arizona State UniversityBelmont University
Github Skills (117)
visual-studio10
bundler10
javascript10
editor10
websocket-client10
json10
executable10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
amd10
commonjs10
vscode10
nodejs10
visual-studio-code10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benduran/neuralyzer
May 2018 - May 2020
Node.js, Websocket-based simple state synchronization server. Useful for synchronizing multiplayer games and collaborative visualizations.
Contributions:4 releases, 18 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
realtimewebsocketssocket-iogamessynchronization
benduran/simplestyle
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
A super simple CSS-in-JS solution with friendly TypeScript support and zero dependencies
Contributions:169 commits, 53 PRs, 176 pushes in 3 years
reactdependenciesstitcheszerocss
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