Ben Church 🇹🇼

University of Victoria

I make amazing software products for the world's most innovative brands.

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Los Angeles, California, United States

At Ship With Us my goal has been simple and straightforward: Help each of our clients utilize the latest in technology to reach their next milestone faster, more efficiently, and with more room for growth than any of their competitors.

As a result, I have had the pleasure of building a number of products and product teams across a variety of industries.

Milestone Moments:
-  Wireframed, prototyped, and launched a Fintech startup in the Credit space, modernizing lending with the latest in banking integrations and analytics.
-  Built a VSCode extension for an Edge Compute platform that lets you deploy a website to IPFS with a hosted domain in seconds.
-  Took an international food delivery brand from idea to app store in weeks.
-  Scaled an event management platform from hundreds of connections to millions.
-  Designed and Launched a clinic dashboard for a promising Veterinary Fintech start-up enabling them to scale to clinics across North America.
-  Built and launched a land purchase platform for an innovative NFT gaming project

In many instances using the best technologies in their category:
-  Elixir / Phoenix
-  Next.js / Typescript
-  React Native
-  Electron
-  GraphQL
-  IPFS
-  Haskell
-  Webflow
-  Neo4j

Ship With Us

Software Development Consultant

Calm Capital acquires bootstrapped businesses from founders looking to move on to their next thing. We continue to operate the business with great user support and development.

Some folks may have stalled out on a project and don’t have the energy to keep growing it. We help these founders find an exit that gives them back time and capital to continue creating wonderful things for the world.

Send us a message 👋 at <a href="mailto:hello@calmcapital.co">hello@calmcapital.co</a>

Calm Capital

Partner

I was brought on at Future Pet to transition their flagship product away from an external contracting company to an in-house Engineering team. After two short months we successfully hired a team of talented Engineers and smoothly moved all development work over. A success on all accounts.

Since then we have shipped 3 new products as well as integrated an existing system and team from our sister company GoFetch.

Milestone Moments:
-  Hired and Managed an successful engineering team of 6
-  Architect-ed a scaleable and resilient ETL pipeline to load data from Clinic servers around North America.
-  Implemented a solution to our version of the GraphQL N+1 problem which reduced API request times by ~40%.
-  Navigated the acquisition and integration of an existing in-market product and team. Reducing infrastructure costs by > 90 %.
-  Built the first version of our mobile payment and telehealth applications in React Native.
-  Created a custom boolean template language allowing the business team to implement complex logical gates for to whom and when Appointment surveys were sent.
-  Released a custom reverse proxy solution to help our teams switch between survey tools seamlessly based on request payload shape.

Technologies Employed:
React.js, React Native, Apollo, Elixir, Phoenix, Golang, Postgres, Node.js, Express.js, Vue.js, Typescript, AWS, Heroku, GCP, Redis, Python.

Primary Focus:
Hiring, Team Building, Management, Functional Programming, ETL Pipelines

<a href="https://futurepet.care">https://futurepet.care</a>
<a href="https://health.gofetch.ca">https://health.gofetch.ca</a>

Future Pet

Lead Engineer (CTO)

Metalab, the company that designed Slack, has an impressive list of world class clients that demand the highest quality in Product Development. My role at Metalab was to take these interesting projects and make them a reality. I was responsible for the scoping, architecting, managing, developing and in the end delivering the final product in a manner that met our own high standard of quality.

Milestone Moments:
-  Successfully transitioned the internals of your favorite Elasticsearch dashboard from backbone.js to redux
-  Built 2 of 3 messenger bots showcasing Facebook's latest login and eCommerce functionality in its Messenger SDK. Demo'd live at their F8 conference and built to scale accordingly.
-  Used Elasticsearch as a custom datastore to create a highly scalable and flexible internal asset management system for your favorite ride sharing app.
-  Implemented a flexible PubSub notification system to service push notifications and email delivery for Trip's by Lonely Planet.
-  Managed the architecture, dockerization, and client hand off of the backend systems for Trips by Lonely Planet.

Technologies Used:
React.js, Redux, Mobx, Flow, Backbone, Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, Node.js, Express.js, AWS, Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes

Primary Focus:
Project Management & Scoping, Functional Programming, NLP interfaces, Reusable Design, Distributed Systems

MetaLab

Lead Software Developer

Worked across multiple teams to deliver highly customizable expense tracking and GIS mapping software for over 50 clients.

Achievements:
-  Implemented a system to allow for expense communication across companies
-  Designed and created a system to allow companies to track expenses by geographic locations
-  Designed a modular system to allow for granular customizations to our code base to serve 54 individual clients

Technologies:
-  C#
-  .Net
-  TypeScript
-  JavaScript
-  Knockout.js
-  Gulp.js
-  MS-SQL

Pandell

Software Engineer

I was a member of a two man team who took the vision of a better local travel experience based upon your immediate area and translated into a working and well designed iOS app in just over a month.

Technologies Used:
-  Javascript
-  Node.js
-  Express
-  PostgreSQL
-  Objective C
-  iPhone SDK

Local

Technical Co-Founder

At Socoloco I was a member of a highly talented team developing software solutions for an international market. I was adept at translating challenging and ever changing business requirements into usable software products.

Notable Achievements:
-  Implemented a complex and modular review system for diggit.ca
-  Designed and created an automated test system for the companies various web products
-  Coordinated the design, revisions and release of two mobile applications on Android and iOS for the Diggit brand

Technologies used:
-  Python
-  Django
-  CoffeeScript
-  Nose
-  PostgreSQL
-  MySQL
-  Hadoop

Semadic

I Designed and implemented test plans for their flagship communication software, discovering numerous critical issues in the process.

Skype

Quality Assurance Engineer

I'm responsible for the design, implementation and upkeep of all online endeavours for Ghana Futures. This includes social media, branding and website design.

Notable Achievements:
-  Designed a brand and developed a website which was responsible for raising enough funds to send 8 young girls to school at the human leadership academy.
-  Successfully promoted a multi-performer event through various online channels which resulted in a profit

Technologies used:
-  HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery