Benjamin Cohen
@benjamincohen
Design-oriented senior frontend engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and AI-native UX.
What I'm looking for
I am a design-oriented senior frontend engineer who owns frontend end-to-end, partnering with product and design to ship polished, high-conversion experiences. I have led rollout of a unified design system, redesigned major funnels that produced measurable revenue lifts, and architected testing and CI/CD pipelines that speed stable releases.
I enjoy teaching and mentorship, building developer-facing tools and design systems, and exploring AI-native interfaces to make powerful tools more intuitive—especially for developers. My work spans React, TypeScript, GraphQL, testing frameworks, and production experimentation driving product impact.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Co-led rollout of a unified design system adopted by 6+ product teams and redesigned the Student Loan Refinancing funnel; implemented A/B experiments that improved conversion ~3%, driving an estimated $12M monthly revenue lift.
Lead Software Instructor
Code Platoon
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year)
Taught modern full-stack development and rebuilt assessments with an automated GitHub Actions grading pipeline, reducing assessment turnaround from days to seconds and improving student feedback velocity.
Senior Software Engineer
DUOS
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022 (11 months)
Owned frontend surfaces for a senior-care platform (marketing, ops, consumer mobile) and implemented unit, integration, and e2e testing integrated with CI/CD to enable rapid, stable releases.
Frontend Developer III
ServiceMaster
May 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 5 months)
Delivered a full redesign of flagship sites and checkout flow for millions of annual users and introduced Jest and Cypress test coverage to ensure feature parity during site architecture transition.
Software Instructor
Fullstack Academy
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019 (2 years 9 months)
Delivered lectures and led curriculum migration from Angular 1.x to React, mentoring hundreds of engineers and supporting bootcamp growth prior to acquisition.
Developed internal UI tools to enable support engineers to train early AI models for Cortana, contributing to tooling for Windows and Office troubleshooting flows.
Contributed to the design of a statically-typed functional scripting language with full type inference, implementing language components in Haskell.
Built an NLP classifier for hotel review fraud detection, improving model accuracy from 89% to 94% using NLTK and scikit-learn.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Grade: GPA 3.7 / 4.0
Activities and societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a 3.7 GPA and membership in Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
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