Ben Loveridge
Senior Software Engineer at GradeCam
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top expert inNeovim Ecosystem and Shell Customization
Ben Loveridge is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience delivering scalable, production-grade systems across web, video delivery, and embedded plugin domains. Based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, he blends full-stack fluency (JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, SQL) with hands-on leadership from roles at Move Networks, DISH Digital, and GradeCam, driving architectures optimized for high concurrency and CDN-based distribution. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving the popular spf13-vim distribution and enhancing AngularJS Bootstrap components, reflecting a strong front-end sensibility alongside backend and build-system work. Comfortable adopting new languages and frameworks quickly, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with disciplined practices like BDD and version control across git/bzr/svn. An amateur HAM radio operator, he brings curiosity and methodical troubleshooting to complex, cross-platform engineering challenges.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at Utah Valley University
Dutch
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
javascript10
python10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
cmake10
templater10
template-engine10
vi10
vim10
angularjs10
syntax-highlighting10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
color-scheme9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spf13/spf13-vim
Aug 2010 - Feb 2011
The ultimate vim distribution
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `spf13-vim` project by modifying Vim configuration files, including color schemes and syntax highlighting rules. They made changes to enhance visual appearance by modifying color definitions and adding support for Jinja and HTML Jinja syntax. Additionally, the user added and modified Vim mappings to improve responsiveness. The user also added Pyflakes integration for Python code analysis.
vim
mgcrea/angular-strap
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
AngularJS 1.2+ native directives for Bootstrap 3.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the AngularJS-based front-end library by implementing and enhancing components. Their work included dispatching and managing events for modal and tooltip components, adding unit tests for the date parser, and resolving issues related to the ESC key handling in tooltips and modals. They also addressed a bug in the dropdown component related to cleanup on destroy.
angularjsbootstrap
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