Ben
Lorantfy

Summary

  • Staff full-stack software engineer, leader, and teacher. Avid open source contributor, UX advocate, lean engineering fan
  • 9+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience

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Awards

Skills Canada Web Development Gold Medal (2015)

Conestoga Co-Op Student of the Year Award (2016)

Open Source

nestjs-zod

(~700k downloads / month)

https://github.com/BenLorantfy/nestjs-zod

Experience

ApplyBoard Inc.

Staff Software Engineer (Dec 2021 - Present 路 3 yr, 10 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2020 - Dec 2021 路 1 yr)
react
typescript
nodejs
nestjs
Rails
MySQL
redis
RabbitMQ
  • Staff software engineer for two teams: Application Processing, the organization's core business domain; and UI Engineering, which shapes the organization's frontend platform, tooling, and standards
  • Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and oversight, while also being an active contributor
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and cross-team to unblock work and move the business forward

Key Accomplishments

  • Led a UI/UX modernization of a 10-year old business-critical page, increasing conversion rate by 13%, developer productivity by 3-4x, and reducing WCAG violations by 90%
  • Co-created and maintained the organization's design system, increasing developer productivity by 2-3x
  • Optimized performance in several areas, reducing bundle size by 60%, build time by 66%, and a key API's response time by 40%
  • Architected and implemented a BFF (Backend for Frontend) from scratch in TypeScript/NestJS
  • Co-led development of automation and AI features, including an in-house workflow builder, that reduced average application processing time by 50%

Conestoga College

Professor (Part-time) (Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 路 1 yr)

Taught courses titled "User Experience Evaluation" and "Software Engineering Fundamentals"

Lorantfy Inc.

Consultant (Full-time) (Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 路 1 yr)
Consultant (Part-time) (2015 - Present 路 10 yrs)
react
redux
typescript
WCAG
SEO
PHP
MySQL

Consulted with various clients on interesting projects, including a11y audits, SEO audits, performance investigations, mobile responsiveness, and building full products from scratch

Postmedia Network Inc. (Postmedia I/O)

Frontend Tech Lead (Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 路 1 yr 3 mos)
Software Developer (May 2017 - Oct 2018 路 1 yr 6 mos)
react
redux
typescript
nodejs
mongodb
AWS
  • Led front-end development of the organization's AdTech web applications, including our advertising analytics and performance platform, as well as an internal ordering system for marketing products
  • Worked closely with product and design teams to create responsive, accessible, well-tested, and performant user experiences
  • Maintained frontend infrastructure, including webpack, babel, jest, eslint, and other tools
  • Also worked on back-end services and deploy pipelines using node.js, docker, AWS, ECS, CircleCI, and other technologies

Key Accomplishments

  • Created and maintained a design system for use across projects
  • Reduced bundle size from 25mb to 4mb
  • Initiated and oversaw long-term technical initiatives, including migrating a project to typescript, upgrading from react 15 to react 16, and others

Brose Canada Inc.

Software Developer (Jun 2015 - May 2016 路 1 yr)
C#
.Net
MSSQL
typescript
  • Independently designed and built Quality Process Tool (QPT), a web application that helped improve the efficiency of the plant's quality assurance processes
  • QPT allows QA technicians to enter and view automotive test data and results. It includes features such as real-time updates, graphical dashboards and reports, a commenting system, and an auditing log
  • Owned entire project from start to finish, including requirement gathering, UX design, technical design, frontend and backend development, server and database administration, testing, and project management

Key Accomplishments

  • Saved the plant an estimated $100k/year in increased efficiency, leading leadership to look at expanding the software to other plants
  • Won "Co-Op Student of the Year" Award from Conestoga College for the project

Other

Additional experience includes co-ops and early roles at SixFactors Inc. and Rivison Inc. (~7 mos)

react
angular
cordova
nodejs
PHP
MySQL

Education

Software Engineering Tech. (B. Tech)

(With Distinction)
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (2019 - 2024)

Business Management (Certificate)

Mohawk College, Hamilton, ON (2024)

Software Engineering Tech. (Adv. Diploma)

(With Distinction)
Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON (2013 - 2017)