Ben Greenwood
I’m a Product Designer and Full Stack Engineer who enjoys tackling problems with a focus on simplicity, usability, and responsiveness.
5 yrs experience · Bath, UK · 20-30 hrs/week
About
With over 5 years of experience, I am a skilled professional who excels at working across both design and engineering. I have a deep understanding of the full stack and can confidently tackle any challenge that comes my way. My passion for creating beautiful and functional products drives me to constantly improve my skills and stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies. If you’re looking for a dedicated and versatile team member, I am the perfect fit for your organisation.
Skills
Experience
- Senior Product Engineer · Aklimate07-01-2022
- Collaborated with our carbon experts to design and maintain intricate carbon & home retrofit algorithms. - Conducted user research and spearheaded planning for various projects, ensuring alignment with user needs and business objectives. - Developed and maintained internal APIs, streamlining communication and improving efficiency within the organisation. - Took ownership of user acquisition, successfully increasing lead conversion by 2-3x through a strategic redesign of a critical lead generation flow. - Optimised the user experience by refactoring existing UX, reducing the number of steps by over 50% and enhancing usability.
- Product Engineer · Appear Here10-01-2021 – 07-01-2022
- Collaborated with stakeholders across the company to identify and develop new ways to automate critical business flows. - Led the development of a new subscription model to increase automatic payments, which involved integrating with third-party payment applications such as Chargebee and Stripe. - Implemented a bespoke space suggestions algorithm based on geolocation and price preferences, which significantly increased the look-to-book conversion rate. - Improved the CI deployment success rate from approximately 60% to over 85%, by improving automated testing processes and optimising deployment pipelines.
- Full Stack Developer · mmtm01-01-2018 – 10-01-2021
- Led client workshops using a PDS approach (based on the Google model) to answer critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. - Played a key role in the entire development life cycle for all our apps, including scoping work, designing, writing back-end and front-end code, and deploying features. - Took responsibility for upholding standards for designing clean, intuitive, and easy-to-use applications. - Built integrations with third-party APIs, such as Stripe, Twilio Video/SMS, Postmark, and many more. - Designed, architected and implemented PostgreSQL database structures and developed and maintained internal APIs.
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