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Hello, I'm Ben. I'm a software engineer at Humanforce in Brisbane. I'm currently working with Laravel, React.js, GraphQL, and AWS.

My projects

CryptoCrowd

Made with:

Cryptocurrency sentiment analysis website based on Twitter posts. Users can see the overall sentiment (positive, negative or neutral) of different Cryptocurrencies based on what people are currently posting on Twitter. Users can also see keywords and an average sentiment score. Stateless application that uses Elasticache and S3 on AWS. It also used EC2 and auto-scaling to manage demand.

Demo GitHub

OzDevs

Made with:

Reverse Job board for companies looking to hire developers in Australia. Filter by experience, location and keyboards. Companies can pay a monthly fee to be able to message developers on the site and view their information.

Live GitHub

Company Asset Trading

Made with:

Client-server system written in Java for trading of virtual assets within departments of a company. Facilitated trades via a marketplace model where users can buy and sell assets. Admins of an organisation can create assets, users and modify details. Uses MariaDB as a database and Swing for the GUI.

GitHub

Techprowl Computer Auction

Made with:

Computer auction application built with Flask. The site allows users to register, bid on items, leave reviews, post new listings, manage listings, search by keyword, and keep a watch list.

Live GitHub

Task Manager Console App

Made with:

Console app that manages tasks in a project. Users can load projects from a file and generate a seqeuence to complete them in, based on each task's dependencies. Users can also find earliest possible commencement time of each task, add new tasks, update tasks, remove tasks, and save the results to a text file.

GitHub

Family Tree Shortest Path

Made with:

Python program that implements a breadth-first search algorithm to generate a minimal spanning tree. Problem was to calculate a shortest path from a starting vertex in a graph to each other vertex. The vertices represent people and each person is related to every other person through parent-child relationships. A person can see how they are related to each other person in the tree

Demo GitHub

Arduino Binary Game

Made with:

Binary game written in C that runs on an Arduino Uno using Tinkercad. The game aims to help users learn binary by challenging them to input different integers in their binary form within a time limit.

Demo GitHub

My Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Node.js
PHP
Laravel
Symfony
Python
Java
HTML
CSS
SCSS
Git
MySQL
Linux
AWS
Docker
Jenkins
Shopify

My experience

Web Developer

M3 Digital - Contract

Front-end development for a variety of Shopify stores such as FitazFK, Rider Collective, Masseuse Massage, Francesca Jewellery and Salty Captain. Developed high quality landing pages and front end features using HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript and Liquid.

September 2021 - February 2022

Junior Developer

YouPay

Developed new features using Laravel, Vue.js, PHP, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, MySQL and REST APIs. Created an email notification system for mechants to receive weekly/monthly summaries of YouPay carts created, paid and cancelled. I also integrated YouPay into dozens of stores.

February 2022 - November 2022

Software Engineer

The University of Queensland

Full-stack software engineer in the Application Development and Support team. Worked on web applications such as CAHP (Casual Academic Hire and Payment), UQ Maps, UQ Donations, and Programs and Courses.

November 2022 - January 2024

Software Engineer

Humanforce

Software engineer in the intelliHR platform team. We are a feature enablement team dedicated to developing features for developers, ensuring they are easier to create. We also look after issues of scale and technical debt for developers and the platform.

January 2024 - Present

My Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology

Graduated in 2023

GPA 6.2/7

Major in Computer Science
Minor in Networks & Security
Minor in Mobile Applications
Science & Engineering Dean's List - 2019 & 2021

Contact me

Please contact me directly at benrogers1299@outlook.com or through this form.