Benjamin Tepolt
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Tepolt is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining web applications, most recently as Lead Software Development Engineer at Conference Exchange where he modernized legacy OO Perl systems and delivered mission-critical platforms for scientific and non-profit clients. He combines deep backend expertise (Perl, MySQL, REST) with frontend skills (React, jQuery, CSS) and a strong operational mindset—optimizing queries, handling UTF-8 conversion, and ensuring correct protocol headers across large deployments. Benjamin has a track record of mentoring cross-functional teams, training departments from development to support, and integrating complex third-party standards for peer-reviewed workflows. An active contributor on GitHub, he has hands-on experience extending social sharing tooling across diverse platforms, showing attention to interoperability and real-world product polish. Based in Pawtucket, RI, he pairs rigorous academic roots in mathematics and computer science with a pragmatic focus on reliable, client-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Mathematics with a Minor in Computer Science, 3.88, Bachelor's of Science, Mathematics with a Minor in Computer Science, 3.88 at Bridgewater State UniversityAssociate of Science Degree, Computer Science, 3.86, Associate of Science Degree, Computer Science, 3.86 at Bristol Community College
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
integrate10
grep10
integrations10
php10
social-media10
mysql9
jquery9
regex9
greatest-n-per-group9
aggregate-functions9
css9
sql9
file-upload9
react9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bradvin/social-share-urls
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Social Share URLs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 323 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the functionality of social share URLs. They added numerous social media platform links, including platforms like Viber, WhatsApp, and Weibo. The user also reorganized the "ByPopularity" function and made modifications to the PHP and JavaScript files to incorporate the new social media links and ensure proper functionality.
social-networkurlsfacebooksocial-sharesocial-media
HoldOffHunger/jquery-crossword-puzzle-generator
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 10 months
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