Front-end Developer
2016 - PRESENTThumbtack- Built a help center from the ground up using Create React App.
- Built a Salesforce integration layer using Salesforce's Force.com platform.
- Built a dispute settlement application also with React and Redux.
Technologies: React.js, Babel, Redux, React-Router, Create React App, Visualforce, ApexFront-end Developer
2015 - 2016Homely.com.au- Built front-end using React-based component architecture.
- Implemented a design for product features.
- Created mobile-first, responsive interfaces.
- Utilized advanced ECMAScript 6 and 7 language features for more expressive, flexible code.
- Effectively worked with a remote team in a distant time zone (Australia).
Technologies: React.js, Babel, Reflux.js, Sass, GulpFront-end Software Engineer
2012 - 2014Yelp- Worked closely with the product team to build new features for the desktop and mobile site.
- Had a lead role on the small team that produced Yelp's first UI style guide, and then made it available to the public. The style guide precipitated an organization-wide push towards modular design.
- Completely rebuilt Yelp's most important page--the business page--from scratch, using advanced CSS features for layout and interaction.
- Led the development of a complete overhaul of all email templates, including Yelp Weekly, which is sent to millions of users per week.
- Gained unique experience working on a large-scale software project with hundreds of contributors. Learned extensively about release engineering, including testing and deployment, as well as common web security vulnerabilities.
Technologies: Python, jQuery, Clojure LibraryUI Designer/Web Developer
2011 - 2012Couchsurfing- Designed multiple experiments focused on optimizing user onboarding, using Optimizely's A/B testing platform.
- Had a fluid role within a startup environment, ranging from coding to graphic design and product management.
- Used Scrum.
- Redesigned the website's main navigation.
- Overcame challenges involved in modernizing the front-end of a 7-year-old codebase.
Technologies: PHP, jQueryWeb Developer
2009 - 2011Perch Design Studio- Turned beautiful Photoshop designs into WordPress sites.
- Built some Shopify sites.
- Learned how to use WordPress as a framework for general application development, not just for blogging and static content.
- Built mobile sites using both custom mobile stylesheets as well as media queries when they were still a new technology.
- Got to work with many local businesses in and around my home town of Portland, Maine.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, jQuery
Benjamin Knight
JavaScript Developer in Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Member since November 13, 2014
Benjamin is a web designer and developer with experience across the web stack beginning in his early teens before web standards. He codes with an eye towards providing a quality user experience and interaction, and enjoys making creative decisions. He loves Python and JavaScript (the good parts) and has worked in a variety of environments, from a large engineering team to a smaller startup and independent freelance work.
Benjamin is now available for hire
Portfolio
- ThumbtackReact.js, Babel, Redux, React-Router, Create React App, Visualforce, Apex
- Homely.com.auReact.js, Babel, Reflux.js, Sass, Gulp
- YelpPython, jQuery, Clojure Library
Experience
- JavaScript, 10 years
- Python, 5 years
- Node.js, 2 years
- React, 2 years
- ECMAScript (ES6), 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
OS X, Unix, Git, Sass, Atom
The most amazing...
...and notable brand identity I've had a hand in is Yelp, spearheading the design of their public style guide and precipitating a company-wide change in approach.
Employment
Experience
- Thumbtack Help Center (Development)https://help.thumbtack.com
Built Thumbtack's help center using React and Redux on top of a Salesforce back-end.
- DemocraticAds.com (Development)http://www.democraticads.com
I designed and coded the landing page as well as redesigned the app.
- Yelp Style Guide (Development)http://yelp.com/styleguide
I had a lead role on the small design team that created Yelp’s public style guide. The style guide precipitated an organization-wide effort towards modular design across all platforms.
- Namecheap Blog (Development)https://blog.namecheap.com
Namecheap's WordPress blog, launched in January 2015. I designed and coded it.
- Namecheap Mobile Promo (Development)https://mobile.namecheap.com
I built this simple Twilio integration app for getting an app store download link through SMS. My role was co-designer and lead developer. The back-end was built in custom PHP. The responsive front-end is built using the Inuit.css Sass framework.
- Philips Hue Alfred Workflow (Development)https://github.com/benknight/hue-alfred-workflow
I created this handy dandy workflow for controlling a Philips Hue lighting system, built in my favorite scripting language, Python.
Skills
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Python, ApexLibraries/APIs
React, Google Places API, Google Maps JavaScript API 3, Node.js, D3.js, jQuery, PolymerParadigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD)Platforms
Web, WordPress, Shopify, Unix, Salesforce, Google App EngineOther
HTML Email, Styleguides, Rendering Performance, BEM Architecture, Chrome Extensions, SA, SquarespaceFrameworks
Foundation CSS, Bootstrap, inuit.css, Visualforce, Django, AngularJS
Education
- Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Computer Science2005 - 2009Colby College - Waterville, Maine
