Shannon Benson is a Staff Software Engineer at OpenTable with nine years of professional experience building front-end focused web applications. She progressed through multiple engineering levels at OpenTable after prior roles at Twitter and Routific, demonstrating rapid growth in product-scale environments. A second-degree Computer Science graduate from UBC with an earlier B.Sc. in Psychology, she blends technical rigor with user-centered thinking. Her background includes hands-on work across startups and larger platforms, shipping features from prototype to production. Based in Victoria, BC, Shannon brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by research-style attention to detail from her transcription and academic work. She’s particularly adept at translating user needs into polished front-end experiences while mentoring engineers as they scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology at University of Victoria
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 6 days
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