Ben Kermode

Lead Frontend Engineer at GoodRx

Ben Kermode is a Lead Frontend Engineer at GoodRx. Ben has over three years of experience as a Senior Front End Developer, writing from scratch a custom React document editor for the web, some aspects similar Google Docs. API interaction, dynamic annotation highlighting, animated explanations, v1. Contributed heavily to user experience, design considerations, project planning and resource allocation, for v2, which included subscription and premium features.

Ben also lead development of a React user account and subscription SPA. App capable of providing routes / pages in isolation or groups, including JWT authorization, Local Storage, and various API integrations. Ben built a bridge system so the React user management app could slowly replace the legacy Angular app, route by route. Before leaving Studymode they launched the entire sign up and payment funnel in React, as well as having lead the team to a place where they could port over remaining routes.

In addition, they were also the lead developer overseeing Front End SEO performance metrics, achieving Google Pagespeed score of 99 and Lighthouse score of 100 on high-traffic SEO-critical web pages. Ben was also the lead developer of new features on previously built multi-site AngularJS user account and subscription app. As well as being the lead developer of universal / isomorphic React prototype for high-value SEO pages. Re-usable React components and services that can be consumed by both client and server-side apps.

Lastly, they architected and developed custom translation system, including API endpoints in Node, React SPA integration, and Shippable CI and sync to AWS s3. Allows translators to sync the data from their desktop translation app (PO Edit) directly to our API.

Ben Kermode has a Bachelor of Psychology / Psychophysiology from Swinburne University of Technology. Ben also has a Certificate IV Sound Engineering from SAE Institute. Ben has a Graduate Certificate of Business Management from Swinburne University of Technology.

Ben Kermode reports to Jody Mulkey, CTO. They are on a team with Mike Hume - Senior DevOps Engineer, Reeto Mookherjee - Head of Data, and Matt Mohebbi - VP, Data Privacy.

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