Ben Marden
Software Engineer at Amenities
Chico, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen Marden is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and optimizing web and mobile applications from Chico, California. He moves comfortably between TypeScript/React ecosystems and backend services in Go and PHP, with a track record of improving performance (Webpack and Redux optimizations) and adding secure, production-ready auth flows (Auth0 PKCE in React Native). At InvestorKeep he cut load times and sharply reduced bugs through extensive Cypress E2E coverage and a TypeScript migration, and his earlier work at CSU Chico automated data pipelines with Python to slash manual effort. Now at Amenities, he continues to ship reliable features while drawing on a strong database background across MySQL, Postgres and Firebase. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who blends practical automation with a curiosity for clean state management—evident in personal projects like a Redux-driven weather app and a pathfinding visualizer.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Business-Computer Studies, Associate of Science (A.S.), Business-Computer Studies at Napa Valley CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
typescript10
android10
frontend10
react10
mobile9
web-framework8
app-framework8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
stylus6
python-extension6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bmarden/cc-weather
Sep 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 41 PRs, 165 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bmarden/dotfiles
Sep 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 145 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
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