Ben is available for hire

Ben Youngblut

Verified Expert in Engineering

Full-stack Developer

Ankeny, United States

Toptal member since July 28, 2022

Expertise

JavaScript Django Python CSS jQuery PostgreSQL Linux AWS Redis Ansible React.js TypeScript MongoDB Java

Bio

Ben is a hard-working, full-stack software developer focused on creating efficient, well-tested, and maintainable code that exceeds expectations. He enjoys learning about new technologies and is not afraid of tackling large new projects or refactoring and revamping old projects. Ben has excellent written and verbal communication skills and over 13 years of experience using Python for web development, scripting, and building infrastructure.

Portfolio

Publitek

Python, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, jQuery, Ansible...

Experience

HTML - 13 years
CSS - 13 years
PostgreSQL - 12 years
Django - 12 years
Python - 12 years
Redis - 10 years
React - 5 years
TypeScript - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Django, TypeScript, Python, React, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Ansible, Linux

The most amazing...

...Django application I've designed runs A/B, multivariate, and SEO tests with reporting administration and Google Analytics integration.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2009 - PRESENT

Publitek

Designed a reusable Django application for running A/B, multivariate, and search engine optimization (SEO) tests, including reporting administration with analysis of variance (ANOVA), t-test, and causal impact confidence analyses.
Rewrote an entire web application written in unstructured PHP code to a clean and maintainable Python Django web application.
Built a system for collecting search phrases associated with individual sales and wrote a custom Solr query handler in Java to conditionally boost the results based on the sales counts for those search phrases.

Technologies: Python, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, jQuery, Ansible, PostgreSQL, MariaDB

Experience

Image Editor

Created a React-Redux JavaScript application for editing images with drag and drop support, color pickers, zooming and panning, image search, web fonts, shapes, a full undo and redo stack, plus several account-required features like saving and sharing of designs.

Image Editor

A web application for creating and editing images. With a full undo and redo functionality, saved canvases, image filters, shapes, and text with stroke and fill color pickers. The application also has multiple layer support and pan and zoom logic.

Contributor Submission System

A web application for photographers to upload and submit images. With metadata extraction from the uploaded images and pages to allow changes to be made to the metadata, it contains a full account registration system with optional MFA login and a fully accessible API that the front-end is built on top of.

Education

2004 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Iowa State University - Ames, IA, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, jQuery, MobX

Tools

Ansible, Webpack

Languages

Python, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Java, JavaScript 6, Python 3

Frameworks

Django, Redux, Material UI, Django REST Framework, Swagger

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux

Storage

PostgreSQL, Redis, MariaDB, MongoDB

Paradigms

REST

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