I’m Ben. I’m a web developer and accessibility advocate in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. I’m currently a senior frontend engineer at Confluent (previously, Microsoft Learn and USAA Bank). My teammates know me for my commitments to user experience and web accessibility, intentional inclusiveness, and unforgivable puns.
Interested in hiring me? Check out my résumé.
You might know me from Some Antics, a weekly Twitch show where I brought on guests from around the web development industry to teach me something about building great user experiences for the web, with a focus on accessibility and core web technologies.
Some Antics is wrapped up now, but I’m grateful for the chance I had to bring together a community each week that was excited about building robust, accessible, and delightful user experiences. You can still check out the backlog of past streams — those aren’t going anywhere.
I graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2018.
While there, I was president of the local Association for Computing Machinery chapter for two years. During that time, we:
I was awarded the Computer Science department’s first ever Outstanding Service Award by the College of Arts and Sciences.
“Their expertise and enthusiasm in creating great user experiences for all is unmatched. And their empathy for people extends to learners like me. When I ask Ben to review my work, when I watch Some Antics or read posts on benmyers.dev, I feel like accessibility is eminently achievable.
Folks on the React Podcast Discord server are fired up about accessibility — not because someone is forcing them to be, but because Ben is optimistic about the challenges ahead!
If you want a team that’s engaged and enthusiastic about accessibility-minded engineering, [hire | work with] Ben Myers.”
—Michael Chan, host of React Podcast
If you’d like to get in touch, there’s a couple good ways to do so: