Ben Jenkins

Senior Software Engineer

Former Instructor & Humanoid Robot Engineer

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Orum: Built AI coaching features for sales reps (e.g., AI call scorecards) — demo.

Senior Software Engineer at Hearst: Shipped React CMS features used by 50+ brands (Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Men's Health) to develop online articles viewed by 145 million monthly visitors.

Lead Software Engineering Instructor at General Assembly: Taught 500+ developers how to write full-stack react apps and developed internal full-stack apps (grade tracking, etc).

Software Engineer at RoboKind: Developed software for humanoid robots delivering therapy to children with autism, including lesson software and an internal content management system.

Education: Master's in Software Engineering, Harvard University Extension School; B.A. in Computer Science, TESU.

Projects

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Latin Learner - Karaoke

ReactBootstrapJSHTMLCSS

Sing along to latin language music, with the lyrics available ahead of time in Latin & English.

GitHub Live Demo

Latin Vocab Quiz

ReactBootstrapJSHTMLCSS

Practice Latin vocab from books such as LLPSI with Latin pronunciations and a review mode.

GitHub Live Demo

Doomsday Rule Trainer

ReactBootstrapJSHTMLCSS

Practice the doomsday rule to find the day of the week of any date in your head.

GitHub Live Demo

Latin Table Quiz - Declensions

ReactBootstrapJSHTMLCSS

Practice Latin declensions (noun suffixes) using the Dowling method.

GitHub Live Demo

React Kanban Board

ReactMaterial UIJSHTML

A Kanban Board built using React and Material UI

GitHub Live Demo

Skill Tracker

ReactExpressBootstrapJS

Review and practice different skills made with React.

Bitcube Image Uploader

AWSMaterial UIJSHTMLCSS

A website to upload images, similar to imgur. Built with AWS S3.

Do You Really Need That?

ExtensionjQueryMaterializeCSS

A chrome extension with a prompt before purchasing on amazon.

Sentimentsion

ExtensionjQueryHTMLCSS

A chrome extension that highlights how positive/negative text is.

Barliman iOS

SwiftiOS

An iOS app that generates code to pass arbitrary tests.

Legend of 50 RPG

Lua

A Legend of Zelda style RPG written in Lua.

CS History Backgrounds

History

CS history backgrounds I would leave on the projector during breaks.