Ben
Lorantfy

Summary

  • 9+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of technical leadership experience
  • 12+ years of javascript/typescript experience
  • 7+ years of react experience

Contact

Awards

Skills Canada Web Development Gold Medal

Conestoga Co-Op Student of the Year Award

Open Source

nestjs-zod

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

@knapsack-pro/vitest

https://github.com/KnapsackPro/knapsack-pro-js/tree/main/packages/vitest

cra-template-redux

https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux

cra-template-redux-typescript

https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux-typescript

redux-injectors

https://github.com/react-boilerplate/redux-injectors

DefinitelyTyped contributions

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3ABenLorantfy

Experience

ApplyBoard Inc.

Staff Software Engineer (Dec 2021 - Present 路 3 yr, 7 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2020 - Dec 2021 路 1 yr)
react
redux
typescript
nodejs
nestjs
  • Leading a team of 3-4 frontend developers on the Core team, responsible for our primary business activity of application processing
  • Part-time member of the UI Engineering team, helping to shape the organization's frontend platform and standards

Key Accomplishments

  • Led a UI/UX revamp project for a 10-year old business-critical page, increasing conversion rate by 13%, developer productivity by 3-4x, and reducing WCAG violations by 90%
  • Built a workflow designer from the ground up, automating application processing and reducing application processing time by 50% and growing
  • Co-created the organization's design system, increasing developer productivity by 2-3x and improving WCAG compliance by ~80%
  • Founded our organization's accessibility community of practice, helped write our accessibility standards, rolled out and administered accessibility training across the organization to 40+ people
  • Created a web BFF (backend for frontend) that reliably handles 100k+ requests per day
  • Decreased bundle size by 60% and build time by 66%

Conestoga College

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

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

Lorantfy Inc.

Software Consultant (Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 路 1 yr)
react
redux
typescript
WCAG

Consulted with various clients, with a focus on improving accessibility compliance and mobile responsiveness

Postmedia Network Inc. (Postmedia I/O)

Frontend Tech Lead (Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 路 1 yr 3 mos)
Frontend Developer (May 2017 - Oct 2018 路 1 yr 6 mos)
react
redux
typescript
nodejs
mongodb
  • Led front-end development of highly depended-upon web applications
  • 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

  • Built an internal ordering system that reliably handles hundreds of orders a day
  • Built an advertising analytics platform, providing insights for sales people and a few thousand Postmedia clients
  • Created and maintained an internal component library 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, built, deployed, and maintained QPT (quality process tool). This tool streamlined and optimized the QA process in the London plant's production line, which has since been expanded to multiple plants

Key Accomplishments

  • Saved the plant an estimated $100k/year in increased efficiency
  • Won "Co-Op Student of the Year" Award

Other

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

react
angular
cordova

Education

Software Engineering Tech. (B. Tech)

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (2019 - 2024)

Business Management (Certificate)

Mohawk College, Hamilton, ON (2024)

Software Engineering Tech. (Adv. Diploma)

Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON (2013 - 2017)