Benjamin Read
Senior Frontend Engineer at ASSET.TV LIMITED
Mold, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Read is a senior JavaScript engineer and founder of Rhedyn Web Creation + Security with 13 years’ experience building performant, accessible web apps and developer tools from serverless Lambdas to Next.js/React frontends. He has held tech-lead roles at Purplebricks and Zopa, led frontend guilds, and currently builds JavaScript libraries and AWS-hosted tools at ASSET.TV while running his own consultancy. An active open-source contributor, Ben improved Webiny’s CMS by adding UI elements, telemetry, and packaging fixes that broadened its usability outside the core ecosystem. He combines hands-on implementation (Vite, Tailwind, Astro, TypeScript, GraphQL, Cypress) with community-facing work—developer relations, docs, talks and mentoring—bringing both craft and communication to product delivery. Based in Mold, Wales, he blends pragmatic engineering with a security-aware mindset and a multilingual, culturally-curious outlook hinted by his GitHub motto.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, English, Maths, Science, Art, Office Studies, GCSE, English, Maths, Science, Art, Office Studies at St Richard Gwyn RC High SchoolNVQ Level 2 & 3, Office Administration, NVQ Level 2 & 3, Office Administration at Professional & Technical Services
Chinese, French, Welsh
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
wpgraphql9
headless-cms9
wordpress-graphql9
serverless9
graphql9
aws8
spa-template8
page-builder8
css7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
webiny/webiny-js
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Open-source serverless enterprise CMS. Includes a headless CMS, page builder, form builder, and file manager. Easy to customize and expand. Deploys to AWS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 15 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the development of the Webiny CMS, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. They fixed issues in the `react-rich-text-renderer` by compiling it to commonJS, enabling its use outside the Webiny ecosystem. The user also implemented new features in the `app-admin` package, such as redirecting users to a thank you page upon installation or upgrade, and added an iframe element to the page builder. The user also added telemetry to GA on first install.
cmsaws-lambdaserverlessawsmicroservice
endymion1818/endymion1818
Oct 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years
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