Ben Akehurst
Senior Sales Engineer at Vercel
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Akehurst is a Senior Sales Engineer at Vercel with nine years of hands-on experience transitioning from senior frontend engineering roles to developer-focused technical sales. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Rightmove and a front-end specialist at companies including Sainsbury's and YOOBIC, he blends deep UI engineering expertise with customer-facing solution design. Based in London, he excels at translating complex web architecture and performance needs into pragmatic, deployable approaches that resonate with both engineering and product teams. His background in full-stack web development and communication studies helps him bridge technical detail and stakeholder storytelling. Colleagues value his ability to diagnose frontend performance issues quickly and turn prototypes into scalable production features. He brings a pragmatic, product-minded engineering perspective to developer experience and platform adoption.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certification Full Stack Web Development, Professional Certification Full Stack Web Development at John Bryce Technology CollegeBTEC Communication and Media Studies, BTEC Communication and Media Studies at Barnet College
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (21)
puppeteer10
nodejs-server10
brainjs10
node-app10
mongo-express10
ionic9
nodejs9
mongodb9
boilerplate9
pug9
rest-api8
rest8
server-side-rendering8
alpha-vantage8
react4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benAkehurst/stock-price-predictor
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
🤖 A stock price predictor using Brain.js and the Alphavantage API
Contributions:49 commits, 18 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 6 months
alpha-vantagebrainjsalphavantagenodejspug
benAkehurst/media-aggregator
May 2020 - Nov 2022
A Mongo Express React Node app to track UK news site headlines
Contributions:18 PRs, 26 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 6 months
reactexpressjsmongopuppeteerexpress
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