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Hello, I'm Ben. I'm a software engineer at Humanforce in the platform team. I build and maintain full-stack systems from modern frontends to event-driven backends and infrastructure — with a focus on performance, scalability, and developer experience.

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My projects

CryptoCrowd

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Cryptocurrency sentiment analysis website based on Twitter posts. Users can see the overall sentiment (positive, negative or neutral) of different Cryptocurrencies based on what people are currently posting on Twitter. Users can also see keywords and an average sentiment score. Stateless application that uses Elasticache and S3 on AWS. It also used EC2 and auto-scaling to manage demand.

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OzDevs

    Made with:

Reverse Job board for companies looking to hire developers in Australia. Filter by experience, location and keyboards. Companies can pay a monthly fee to be able to message developers on the site and view their information.

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Company Asset Trading

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Client-server system written in Java for trading of virtual assets within departments of a company. Facilitated trades via a marketplace model where users can buy and sell assets. Admins of an organisation can create assets, users and modify details. Uses MariaDB as a database and Swing for the GUI.

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Techprowl Computer Auction

    Made with:

Computer auction application built with Flask. The site allows users to register, bid on items, leave reviews, post new listings, manage listings, search by keyword, and keep a watch list.

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Task Manager Console App

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Console app that manages tasks in a project. Users can load projects from a file and generate a seqeuence to complete them in, based on each task's dependencies. Users can also find earliest possible commencement time of each task, add new tasks, update tasks, remove tasks, and save the results to a text file.

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Family Tree Relationship Path Finder

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Python program that computes the shortest paths in a family tree using a breadth-first search algorithm. Problem was to calculate the shortest path from a starting vertex in a graph to each other vertex. The vertices represent people and each person is related to every other person through parent-child relationships. A person can see how they are related to each other person in the tree

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Arduino Binary Game

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Binary game written in C that runs on an Arduino Uno using Tinkercad. The game aims to help users learn binary by challenging them to input different integers in their binary form within a time limit.

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My Skills

Backend
  • TypeScript
  • PHP
  • C#
  • Python
  • Laravel
  • Node.js
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
Frontend
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Webpack
  • Single Page Applications
  • Responsive Design
DevOps
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code
Practices
  • Database design
  • Event‑driven architecture
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
Tools
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Sentry
  • New Relic
  • Grafana

My experience

My Education

QUT

Bachelor of Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology

Graduated in 2023

GPA 6.2/7

  • Major in Computer Science
  • Minor in Networks & Security
  • Minor in Mobile Applications
  • Science & Engineering Dean's List - 2019 & 2021

Contact me

Please contact me directly at benrogers1299@outlook.com or through this form.