Benjamin T. Childs

benjamin.t.childs@gmail.com | 817-360-0163 | Austin, TX | github.com/bchilds

Professional Experience

Big Health | Senior Frontend Software Engineer | 2022 - 2023

  • Primary engineer for research, technical planning and implementation of application theming
  • Integrated proxy for local development against remote data and services, saving hundreds of developer hours in slow local stack startup and management
  • Implemented and promoted widespread adoption of typescript test utility patterns as well as new best practice unit testing processes with React Testing Library
  • Refactored large sections of core application logic and structure to unlock future development possibilities and achieve more consistent, reliable source of truth for application state

ShipStation, Auctane | Software Engineer | 2020 - 2022

  • Developed greenfield rebuild of ShipStation’s primary frontend Backbone client utilizing Redux, Observables and newest React best principles
  • Took over as primary developer of our Slackbot-based release tooling from Devops, implementing new workflows which made the developer release process flow more smoothly and improved QA efficiency by giving them more heads-up and information as developers release by utilizing the Hubot framework in Node, GitHub’s Octokit API, and TeamCity/Octopus Deploy APIs
  • Jumpstarted multiple new, mission-critical projects for cross-org teams by rapidly context-switching and handling fullstack requirements
  • Helped institute pattern of small-scale, cross-team feature squads for better communication and planning, now being adopted more widely by the organization
  • Developed and maintained multiple aspects of C# backend monolith, integrating with or converting pieces into microservices as necessary

ShipEngine, Auctane | Software Engineer | 2017 - 2020

  • Improved usability and maintainability of legacy Backbone client dashboard by rewriting in React, documenting all endpoints and workflows for a future rebuild
  • Gave customers first insight into their API usage-based billing using Chart.js against a custom billing service
  • Overhauled org’s weekly billing process utilizing Recurly, recouping $100,000+ in previously-unbilled monthly revenue
  • Improved and maintained partner integrations, core business logic with C#, Backbone, React, Typescript

Technical Skills and Tools

Javascript/Typescript, ReactJS, Node, C#, API Development, Redux, Redux Observables, Express, Jest, Git, JIRA, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Visual Studio/VS Code, AWS API, SQL, MongoDB/Mongoose

Education

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN | Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering
HackReactor | Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program

About This Human

I go bouldering twice a week at one of the local rock climbing gyms, am starting to get into woodworking, and enjoy reading sci-fi and fantasy novels.