Ben Manu
Front End Technical Lead at AKQA
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Manu is a Front End Technical Lead based in Wellington, New Zealand, with 12 years of experience designing and delivering user-facing web applications across agencies and product teams. Currently leading front-end efforts at AKQA, he progressed through principal and senior developer roles at Wunderman Thompson and SilverStripe, bringing both hands-on implementation and solution-architect thinking to client work. He excels at translating business needs into maintainable, scalable front-end architectures and mentoring teams through complex deliverables. Comfortable in agency environments, Ben balances rapid iteration for campaigns with longer-term platform improvements. His background in Management Information Systems gives him a pragmatic mix of technical and product-oriented perspective that keeps projects aligned to user and business outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers practical shipping over perfection, consistently turning ambiguous briefs into polished, production-ready experiences.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Management Information Systems, General at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (27)
silverstripe10
rendering10
testing9
mvc-framework9
frontend9
geojson8
cms8
leaflet8
behat7
menu6
hierarchy5
responsive-images4
php3
backbone3
javascript3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benmanu/silverstripe-leafletfield
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Store geoJSON on an object through a leaflet field.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years
geojsonleaflet
benmanu/silverstripe-styleguide
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Generates a styleguide for a SilverStripe theme.
Contributions:3 releases, 45 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 2 months
silverstripe
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