Benjamin Berman

New York, NY ยท bdberm@gmail.com

I'm a software engineer with a passion for breaking down complex problems and building iterative, testable, and well planned approaches to solving them. I have expertise in JavaScript, React, Ruby, Rails and SQL, and am excited to continue to learn new languages, frameworks and algorithms.

I also have extensive experience on the business, sales and marketing side of various technology companies. I'm the rare software engineer who has also signed-up six figure recurring revenue customers, managed lead generation efforts and forecast a high-growth company's P&L.

My technical and business background have made me a huge believer in ensuring there is robust communication and effective feedback loops between product/development and the other parts of the organization, particularly sales and customer service. Engendering a culture of user-centric product development is important to me and I'm looking to work with organizations and individuals who share that focus on the end-user.

When not working you'll likely find me at a CrossFit box or at home looking at pictures of cute dogs on Instagram and basketball highlights on YouTube.

Work

FoodSnob     LIVE     GITHUB

A fullstack, single-page recipe management app inspired by the New York Times Cooking Site. I built a custom JSON API for AJAX calls to maintain an efficient, normalized Redux state. Utilizes React Transition Group to create advanced CSS transitions and hover-effects. Code kept DRY with the use of partials and re-used React presentational components

Surface To Air     LIVE     GITHUB

Surface To Air is inspired by the classic 1-player Atari game Missile Command. It involves a series of projectiles descending from the sky at various trajectories headed for the six cities on the ground. The player fires missiles from a fixed location via a crosshair contolled by the player via the mouse

Tracks     GitHub

A lightweight MVC framework built in Ruby. It utilizes the RACK webeserver interface to respond to HTTP requests with responses that render HTML template populated by modal data to the user

Skills

  • Ruby

  • Rails

  • JavaScript

  • React

  • Redux

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • jQuery

  • PostgreSQL

  • Git

  • Github

  • Heroku

  • AWS

  • RSpec

Contact Me: bdberm@gmail.com