Benji Shine
Technical Program Manager at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenji Shine is a Technical Program Manager in San Francisco with 11 years of software experience—starting as a front-end engineer and evolving into a leader who designs onboarding and peer-learning systems at Slack. He’s a software generalist comfortable across JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, 2D/3D graphics, and UI pixel-tweaking, with deep experience in Ember and building rich web tools for education and advertising platforms. Known for rescuing abandoned projects and creating order from chaos, he blends hands-on implementation sensibilities with process and tooling improvements. Passionate about user experience, he specializes in collaborating with designers to turn subtle UX needs into polished, production-ready interfaces. An early contributor to OpenLaszlo and a longtime advocate for developer learning, he often focuses on making complex systems more approachable for engineers.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Brown UniversityPost-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Studies, Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Studies at Mills College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (62)
ember-cli9
command-line-utility9
reactive-programming8
functional-programming8
javascript8
ember7
kaleidoscope7
yeoman6
haskell6
modifiers6
sketch6
nrf528406
ember-addon6
boilerplate5
nodejs5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AltSchool/ember-shortcuts
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ember-addonkeyboard-shortcutsemberjskeyboardember
benshine/sandbox
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 55 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
placein-progresspythonwork-in-progress
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