Ben Strahan
Director Of Community at Hackster.io
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Strahan is a growth-oriented community and go-to-market leader who currently serves as Director of Community at Avnet and Managing Director at Hackster.io, helping startups and Fortune 500s scale brands and revenue. He brings a rare blend of hands-on technical experience and executive strategy, having moved from software and CAD design on projects like Trump Tower and Wrigley Field into senior marketing, sales, and boardroom roles. Ben has repeatedly delivered measurable outcomes—building a 15k+ developer community at Hologram, driving 10x pipeline growth and 420% recurring revenue growth at SORACOM, and evolving companies from B2C to B2B. He remains technically active, contributing front-end routing and navigation improvements to open-source projects like meteoric/meteor-ionic. An advisor and founder (Core Directive) based in Chicago, he is known for combining creative problem solving with operational rigor and an appetite for new collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
ionice10
javascript10
javascripts10
ionic10
meteor10
front-end-development10
ionic210
underscore9
underscorejs9
url-routing9
cordova8
meteor-blaze6
user-accounts6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
meteoric/meteor-ionic
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Ionic components for Meteor. No Angular!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of Ionic components within the Meteor framework. Their contributions involved adding and refining features related to routing and navigation, specifically for `ionItem` components. This includes implementing `pathFor` and `urlFor` route options, and subsequently addressing feedback and updates to attributes and documentation. They also addressed issues and dependency updates.
ionic-componentsmeteorionicangulartypescript
HologramEducation/hologram-SIMCOM
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Easily use any SIMCOM cellular module with Hologram's cloud.
Contributions:5 releases, 17 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
cellularhologramsimcom
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