Benn Tilby
Front-end Developer at Itchybach
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenn Tilby is a seasoned front-end developer with over two decades of experience building web user interfaces and an MSc in IT (HCI). He brings deep UX and interaction design expertise—user research, personas, journey maps and rapid usability testing—combined with hands-on front-end engineering in HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery. Benn spent more than two years at Google contributing to products like Reports, Wave plug-ins and Studio, and has led contract work and his own company, Itchybach, since 2010. He knows how to translate complex stakeholder needs into pragmatic UI components and prototypes, having shipped projects across advertising, media and enterprise tools. Notably, his background spans creative facilitation and technical prototyping (including Flash-era builds), giving him a rare blend of visual craft and legacy-to-modern front-end migration experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, IT (HCI), Distinction, MSc, IT (HCI), Distinction at Kingston UniversityN/A, 10 GCSEs at grades A and B including English and Maths, N/A, 10 GCSEs at grades A and B including English and Maths at Haverstock SecondaryFoundation in Art & Design, Graphic Design, Pass, Foundation in Art & Design, Graphic Design, Pass at Chelsea College of Design
English
Github Skills (13)
esp82669
arduino9
esp329
platformio9
arduino-library7
json5
embedded4
cpp3
iot3
flask2
dashboard1
visualization1
visualize1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bennthomsen/bennthomsen.github.io
May 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
bennthomsen/ESP8266-BristleBot
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 160 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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