Benjamin Mort
Political Technology Specialist at Australian Progress
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBenjamin Mort is a political technology specialist and seasoned digital executive based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience building campaign infrastructure and guiding multi-organisation digital transformation. He has led engineering and product teams as CTO and Director of Technology at mission-driven organisations such as OPEN and GetUp, delivering CRMs, mass-contact tools and analytics that scaled distributed campaigning efforts. A full-stack engineer by background, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like Spoke (mass texting/SMS distribution), bridging React/GraphQL front-ends with robust back-end schemas. Known for pragmatic architecture and data-driven strategy, he also brings uncommon strengths in multi-stakeholder vendor negotiation, board-level change management and staff wellbeing-focused leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St Joseph's College, Gregory TerracePhilosophy, Philosophy at The University of Queensland
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
graphql10
javascript10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
sms-messages8
sms8
twilio7
git7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StateVoicesNational/Spoke
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
mass-contact text/SMS distribution tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 13 PRs, 35 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the `spoke` repository by implementing features and fixing bugs. Their commits include adding functionality for user and campaign assignment, and integrating a terms of service agreement. The user also made changes to the front-end components and back-end schema, demonstrating a full-stack skillset. Key changes involved modifying code related to React, GraphQL, and database interactions, ensuring the application's functionality.
marketing-toolsreactthinkytwiliorethinkdb
GetUp/identity-spoke
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 28 pushes in 2 years 6 months
railsrails-enginerubydata-flowidentity
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