Hey! I'm

Ben Lam

I create things for the internet

My focus is on the front end since I love to create an engaging web experience for the user. I've been working as a web developer since 2019, but I still think there is still so much to learn since the user experience is always changing.

About Me

I'm a creator.

It first started with graphic design in college, but I soon realized I'm not good at creating things out of nothing. This lead me to photography and videography which I still do as a hobby.

There are many little things that pushed me towards web development such as managaing and designing a company newsletter, clumsily customizing a Salesforce CRM for a previous employer, and doing QA for a startup.

At the startup, I told them I'm interested in becoming a dev so they told me to take an online course and they'll teach me the rest while working. So after a month of online courses, I became a front end developer in Septebmer 2019.

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Professional Experiences

Learnswell

Junior Web Developer

September 2019 - January 2022

  • Implemented frontend redesign for a client's custom eLearning website
  • Implemented frontend design for the company’s eLearning platform
  • Implemented logic to traverse through questions, lessons, and courses for the company's eLearning platform

Quality Assurance Specialist

November 2017 - September 2019

  • Tested websites for bugs and submitted tickets for devs
  • Created automated testing scripts using Headless Chrome and Puppeteer
  • Proposed and created website UI and UX for the dev team to implement

Things I've Created

F.Art Magazine

October 3, 2022

I started playing with Stable Diffusion to generate art since I can't draw. It started with creating fan art of characters from the NoPixel GTARP server. One image gave me the inspiration to create a fictional magazine blog website to showcase the art I created with Stable Diffusion and motivation to learn about headless CMS.

NextJS
GraphCMS
TailwindCSS
fartnp.com home page

DogBnB

August 16, 2022

My brother said I would be ready for most dev jobs if I can recreate the AirBnB website. Well, here's the site, but instead of houses it is dogs. I had to learn more about the back end, databases, and APIs to recreate the site.

NextJS
MongoDB
TailwindCSS
dogbnb.blamstack.dev home page
screenshot of the bank hack minigame

Bank Hack Game

May 5, 2022

A hacking minigame from the NoPixel GTARP server to break into a bank.

React
GSAP
screen shot of the var hack minigame

VAR Hack Game

April 12, 2022

A game based on the VAR hack from the NoPixel GTARP server.

React
GSAP

Thinking Out Loud

Downtown Cab Co in EchoRP GTA server.

After months of figuring out what to do, I finally found a project where I'm actually interested in. I'm creating a finance management system for a fictional taxi company.

Front page of cal.com

I got tired of trying to think of cool projects for myself so I decided to contribute to an open-source project

I'm in talks with a recruiter about a job opening at a company and he wanted me to take a technical assessment test so he could get help get me a job that matches my skill level. I took the test and failed miserably.