Benny Powers
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Jerusalem District, Israel
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Top SchoolBenny Powers is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Jerusalem with 13 years of experience building full-stack and front-end solutions across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep practical knowledge of web components, TypeScript, tooling and testing with a pragmatic focus on accessibility, performance and developer experience. At Red Hat he progressed from Principal UX Engineer to his current senior principal role, bringing leadership to cross-functional projects while remaining hands-on in code. An active open-source contributor, Benny has improved widely used projects like Storybook, Lit, and Forem—shipping features ranging from dynamic source rendering to embed handling and build-system improvements. He pairs a disciplined engineering style (vim, git, TDD) with curiosity and pedagogy honed from years as a tour guide and mentor, which shows in clear documentation and developer-centric fixes. He’s equally comfortable refactoring build pipelines as he is implementing nuanced DOM and sanitizer fixes that improve real-world user and authoring workflows.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Tour Guide License Israel, Tour Guide License Israel at Lander InstituteRabbinic Ordination Shabbat, Rabbinic Ordination Shabbat at Aish HaTorahNanodegree Mobile Web Specialist, Nanodegree Mobile Web Specialist at UdacityTour Educator Informal Education, Tour Educator Informal Education at מכון תגלית למחנכים בסיור
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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pygame
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Github Skills (64)
accessibility10
markdown10
lit-element10
ruby-rails10
hook10
javascript10
tree-sitter10
react-hooks10
template-literals10
storybook10
testing10
css10
test-runner10
typescript10
rails10
Programming languages (39)
Github contributions (5)
modernweb-dev/web
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Guides, tools and libraries for modern web development.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 46 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Benny primarily focused on improving the accessibility and user experience of the project. They implemented dark mode functionality by modifying CSS variables and theme settings. The user also addressed layout issues with GitHub links and integrated a test runner for ensuring the project's functionality.
web-developmentjavascripttest-runnersaucelabsbrowserstack
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 8 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Benny primarily contributed to enhancing the Neovim Treesitter configuration, specifically focusing on implementing and refining code injection queries. Their work involved adding and modifying queries for HTML and ECMAScript, enabling more precise syntax highlighting and code completion within the Neovim environment. They implemented features like injection for event attributes and markdown code blocks. The user also added tests to validate the behavior of these injections.
nvimtree-sitterneovimnvim-treesitter
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