Product thinking. Engineering execution.

Ben was an exceptional CTO and a true partner in the chaos of startup life. At WorkMade, we took on massive projects with ambitious timelines, and Ben had the rare ability to turn an idea from concept yesterday to a working build in production today. He knew exactly where to focus our energy for the biggest impact, operated with incredible agility, and made thoughtful trade-offs without ever compromising quality and security. Without needing to be asked. Beyond his technical skill, Ben was an incredible teammate and communicator. He knew how to adapt his style to whoever he was working with (whether it was breaking things down for a non-technical teammate or deep-diving with an engineer) so everyone felt aligned and heard. Working with Ben felt like having both a strategic visionary and a hands-on builder in one. Any founder/team would be lucky to have him in their corner.

Nick Simpson

Founder, WorkMade

Ben is a fantastic engineer, CTO, and manager. I had the privilege of working as an engineer with Ben for six months and learned an incredible amount. Ben has a keen mind for evaluating and making responsible eng tradeoffs to balance speed with stability and reliability which is invaluable in a startup environment. He also is a very efficient engineer and consistently shipped quality code quickly. During his time at WorkMade, Ben was responsible for spearheading several efforts to make our monitoring and deployment infrastructure more robust while simultaneously writing code to ship new features. As a manager Ben does a great job of mentoring his reports and making time to work with them to answer questions, explain things, and generally improve their skills, but also provide them enough time and space to figure things out on their own. It was a real pleasure to get to work with him and he would be an invaluable member to any eng team.

Anya Hargil

Engineer, WorkMade

I hired Ben to lead the redevelopment of our SaaS application from crusty old code into something more modern. He made suggestions - along with pro's and con's - that helped us decide which way to go. We ultimately went with his recommendations. I quickly came to depend on Ben's knowledge and expertise on all aspects of the development of our Backbone.js app. His wider experience with other aspects of product architecture, such as REST APIs and CSS was also invaluable. Unlike your stereotypical uber-techie, he's also very personable and everyone enjoyed working with him. I've come to regard him as the foremost expert in his field.

Duane Jackson

Founder, KashFlow

We worked with Ben on a tricky React-based medical app, where we needed to cover a lot of ground efficiently, with a small team. Ben was a pleasure to work with - fast, effective and a great communicator, delivering on time and delivering exactly as promised. Particularly valuable was his ability to help us implement best practices, sensible technical architecture and a testing framework that helped ensure that code quality remained high even after his involvement on the project ended and the codebase transitioned to being owned and maintained by another team. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to others looking for the same!

Jon Lay

Founder, Hanno

Organising and running ng-workshop with Ben was a great experience. He is an excellent teacher and more than willing to share his knowledge building and scaling web applications. He covered everything from basic JavaScript concepts to high-level architecture and best practices, and made sure everyone is at the same level by the end of the day. We received very positive feedback from all attendees after the event. I don't think the workshop would have been such a success without Ben.

Svilen Gospodinov

ng-workshop co-organizer