Benjamin Elo
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Elo is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building front-end and mobile tooling at scale, currently at Meta. He brings deep expertise in UI and Android development, evidenced by notable open-source contributions to Facebook’s popular Flipper debugging platform where he enhanced navigation plugins and UI bookmark features. His background blends hands-on product work—from API and backend features in Python to DevOps automation on Azure—with a steady focus on shipping maintainable code and improving developer workflows. As a former University of Edinburgh tutorial leader and long-time intern across diverse engineering teams, he pairs strong mentorship and collaboration skills with practical cross-stack fluency. He’s comfortable navigating large codebases and shipping developer-facing features that improve debugging and productivity for mobile engineers.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Bsc, Informatics, Computer Science Bsc, Informatics at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (17)
mobile-development10
android-development10
typescript9
typescript-types9
react9
typescripts9
ios7
ui-design7
front-end-development7
uid7
delay6
i2c6
parsing6
warnings6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/flipper
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
A desktop debugging platform for mobile developers.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:101 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development of the Flipper mobile debugging platform, with a focus on the Android platform. Their work involved implementing features for the navigation plugin, including adding the ability to navigate to different app pages via the plugin, displaying class names of views, and integrating the iOS navigation system. They also worked on the UI, including adding the display of bookmarks. These contributions suggest a strong focus on mobile development, specifically for the Android platform, and UI enhancements.
windowsdebuggingdebugcross-platformdesktop
bnelo12/Pig-Latin-Unit-Tester
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 days
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