Maxwell Benton
Frontend Developer at Mastercard
Vermont, United States
Summary
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RockstarMaxwell Benton is a Frontend Developer with 9 years of experience currently on assignment to Mastercard and based in Vermont. He blends solid React and vanilla JS UI work with a strong background in test automation and QA, frequently improving test suites and refactoring specs across JavaScript and Ruby projects. Maxwell has contributed full-stack Sinatra apps and Rails configuration fixes, showing comfort across frontend interfaces and backend environment work. His GitHub history highlights attention to robustness and maintainability—adding randomized test data, improving test specificity with sinon, and cleaning up legacy tests and transpilation issues. Colleagues would note his habit of fixing brittle tests and naming inconsistencies, an indicator of pragmatic, detail-oriented engineering. He brings a mix of production-facing UI development and behind-the-scenes quality engineering that reduces regressions and accelerates delivery.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (61)
component-based10
unit-testing10
git10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
web-application10
sinon10
testing10
css10
configuration-management10
rspec10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-curriculum/phase-1-super-lab
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Maxwell primarily focused on updating and refining the test suite for the project. Their contributions involved modifying existing tests to improve accuracy and ensure they focused on the intended aspects of the code. Specifically, they updated test definitions and refactored tests to check for inheritance rather than private properties.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Maxwell's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and refining tests for a Ruby-based learning lab. They removed tests for the non-nested hash portion and redesigned and cleaned up test titles to align with the lab's progression. The commits demonstrate an understanding of testing frameworks and the structure of the learning exercises. The user's work improves the accuracy and clarity of the tests.
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