# Ben Tea

> 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒘-𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bentea

I beat an LLM once and lived to tell the tale. Interested in full stack web development, consistent design, and presenting data through clear visuals.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Shippabo
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Shippabo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Shippabo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Full stack development in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and MongoDB. Created shipment queue to increase operation team's efficiency. Crafted a two-dimensional, virtualized, Excel-like React component to solve the laborious nature of manual data entry in our web application. Utilized Google AutoML to create a classifier to reduce need for manual ocean rate classification.

### Software Engineer @ Moebius Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Diego, California
Full stack web development with React web applications using redux, rxjs, ramda, reselect, folktale, redux-observables, jest, and swagger. Back end with Java 8 and spring boot framework. Deployment uses JBoss servers. Version control using git in conjunction with gitlab and bitbucket git servers. Developing in a Linux environment.

### Software Engineering Intern @ ServiceNow
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Diego, California
Developed the Service Portal Windows high contrast theme along with their new Viridian La Jolla theme using SCSS to make the Service Portal colors fully accessible even when users toggle to high contrast mode in Windows. Experienced joys and wonders of a speedy feedback loop from the test and design teams to quickly implement designs to specification. Made heavy use of ServiceNow iron dome instances to communicate, demonstrate, and iterate new themes.

### Methods Student @ Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, California
Global Bathymetry: Machine Learning for Data Editing. Data set of over 440 million entries. Using machine learning techniques such as boosted trees to classify validity of sea floor data and determine important features. Programming in Python and using various libraries such as xgboost, spark, matplotlib, scikit learn, and pandas.

### Data Processing Assistant @ Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, CA
Tasks include downloading, organizing, and preprocessing satellite radar data for interferograms to analyze earthquakes and fault lines. Job requires working in a *nix environment and terminal to do bash scripting, programming in python, and running scripts on San Diego Supercomputer.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Kiran Analytics, A Verint Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California
Prototyped the break rules visualizer and implemented push notifications for Cloud Cords Connect. Utilized Firebase Cloud Messaging and created a Node.js microservice to facilitate push notifications. Prototyped Cloud Cords Connect mobile app using React Native.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Mathematics-Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Minor in Management Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/teabens

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Last updated: 2026-03-22