To Whom It May Concern,

You've reached the personal website of Ben Schulz. In the spirit of prototyping and iteration, this is a placeholder to give you an introduction to myself and my background while I develop a more interactive and detailed experience. Stay tuned to see what I am cooking up :) You can also check out the V1 of my website here: benschulz.dev V1.

Here's my professional pitch:

I am a passionate and skilled developer driven by the challenge of turning ideas into impactful products. With a strong focus on collaboration, technical innovation, and creating user-friendly systems, I thrive on building solutions that make a real-world impact. My work is guided by a commitment to excellence, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

Throughout my career, I have built a reputation as a dependable and collaborative engineer who takes ownership of projects from initial design to rollout and beyond. I value fostering a team environment grounded in mutual learning and trust. I enjoy mentoring junior engineers and peers through constructive code reviews and peer programming, emphasizing both team performance and individual growth. By prioritizing strong relationships and feedback ecosystems in diverse groups, I aim to deliver the best possible products for all users. My approach involves maintaining open and broad communication channels to ensure decisions are informed, transparent, and aligned with user needs, while staying adaptable to evolving requirements through iterative development.

Building on this foundation of teamwork, I can apply my technical skills to produce powerful results. I am well-versed in driving product direction for highly interactive and impactful UI features within data-heavy, enterprise-scale codebases. I have a keen eye for detail and enjoy combining my technical skills with design knowledge to create elegant and efficient interfaces. I am also experienced in implementing accessibility standards to ensure inclusivity across a platform. Along with producing an outstanding end user experience I also prioritize my fellow developers as I implement maintainable and extensible systems with high quality code standards.

While my recent professional experience has focused on Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, I have a solid understanding of component-based UI architecture and am confident in my ability to quickly adapt to other frameworks and technologies. My history of extensive collaboration with back-end engineers to develop and uptake efficient APIs leaves me prepared to take on server-side responsibilities too. Furthermore, my hands-on experience includes Git, AI prompting, CI/CD practices, and unit and E2E testing frameworks. In all, my goal is to continually grow as a developer while delivering meaningful technical contributions that align with user and business needs.

Outside of all of that, I like to get out hiking, backpacking, biking, skiing, travelling, and making gear for those activities. Of course I also enjoy music, video games, film, and tv and I'm trying to read more.

That's it for now.

Thanks for your attention,

Ben Schulz