Morgan Benton
Principal Engineer Engineering Success Manager at Tony Britt SpotterCharts
United States
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Top SchoolMorgan Benton is a Principal Engineer and Engineering Success Manager with 20+ years of experience coaching teams to deliver high‑value software and data products across fintech, renewable energy, insurance, and media. They combine hands‑on engineering—full‑stack web, mobile, data pipelines, and testing—with leadership in solution architecture, agile/DevOps practices, and career development for engineers at all levels. Morgan has led multiple Agile teams, built BI and ETL platforms with Databricks and Cube.js, and contributed accessibility and quality improvements to popular Vue projects like Vuetify and vuex-persist. A former tenured professor who practices “ungrading,” they uniquely blend pedagogy and engineering to create learning cultures that encourage risk, ownership, and measurable improvement. Top‑5% contributor on StackOverflow and author of an actively used open‑source NPM package, Morgan pairs deep technical craft with a passion for inclusive, outcomes‑driven teams.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Leadership Studies, Sociology & Physics, Bachelor's degree, Leadership Studies, Sociology & Physics at University of Richmond
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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106answers
19questions
mysql
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android
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adb
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laravel-blade
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php
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laravel
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Github Skills (32)
accessibility10
asynchronous10
javascript10
vuex10
async10
ui-components10
plugin-development10
typescript10
ui-design10
material-design10
vue10
vuetify10
typescript-types10
state-management10
typescripts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
championswimmer/vuex-persist
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A Vuex plugin to persist the store. (Fully Typescript enabled)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Morgan primarily contributed to the implementation of features within the Vuex Persist plugin. Their work includes adding the ability to emit events when the async store is replaced, which involves changes to the core logic of the plugin and modifications to the test suite to verify the event emission. The user also addressed code climate issues and refactored the code base, improving its overall quality. Finally, the user set up a new test to ensure that the `store.restored` property works as expected.
vuevuexpersistvuex-plugintypescript
vuetifyjs/vuetify
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
🐉 Vue Component Framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Morgan primarily contributed to improving the accessibility and documentation of the Vuetify UI component framework. They added WAI-ARIA attributes to the VDivider component, ensuring better accessibility. Additionally, they implemented accessibility sections in the documentation and updated API documentation for various components, including VWindow, VTreeview, and VToolbar. Their work included fixing bugs and updating the documentation for various components.
neumorphismagnosticvuetifyjsvueui-components
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