Benjamin White
Senior Software Engineer at Expedia Group
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin White is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-facing web applications and internal platform tooling at companies like Expedia Group and PayPal. He specializes in Node.js and TypeScript-based full-stack work, with deep expertise in React, GraphQL/Apollo, server-driven UI patterns, and developer experience improvements such as generators and CI workflows. At Expedia he maintains Shared-UI and an opinionated app framework that power both internal and public experiences at scale, and at PayPal he helped architect a universal JS consumer app and cross-border banking integrations. Benjamin pairs strong analytical problem-solving and mentorship skills with a background in marketing and graphic design, giving him a practical sensitivity to UX, design constraints, and cross-team communication. He’s comfortable running community onboarding, code review, and platform-level improvements, and has driven production systems that serve millions of users. Based in Austin, he brings a designer’s eye to engineering trade-offs and a track record of making large apps maintainable and contributor-friendly.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Minor in Italian, 3.8, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Minor in Italian, 3.8 at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/expediagroup.github.io-old
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
bensbigolbeard/github-helpers
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
A collection of Github Actions that simplify and standardize common CI/CD workflow tasks.
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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