Ben is a full-stack principal engineer and solutions architect with 15+ years of experience. He has demonstrated proficiency in PHP and JavaScript software development in Object-Oriented Programming with a focus on clean, efficient, and well-documented code. His most recent projects focused on learning Lua and writing an NGINX script to assign the docroot and pass requests to the appropriate CGI upstream based on mapping of hostnames in a Memcache instance backed by MYSQL for persistence. Ben has extensive experience with WordPress Deployment, Development, and Maintenance involving automated multi-site deployments of over 2000 sites on a single instance of WordPress.
Hire BenjaminPrinciple Engineer on Platform Support Engineering team. Worked on enhancing infrastructure automation and supporting the infrastructure platform.
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● Platform and Systems automation
● Web Portal development and maintenance
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Develop and maintain code related to the customer management portal.
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Software Development of the npr.org frontend, specifically during the responsive redesign of the home page and update of the online radio station player.
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● Contribute to the primary PHP/javascript of the WWW and codebase
● contributed to the API for station search and localization
● Participated in the awesome agile/scrum workflow
WordPress specialist, building and maintaining WordPress plugins, coordinating 3rd party vendors in the migration of proprietary CMS to WordPress migrations, assisting front-end team with HTML/ CSS/JavaScript.
● Maintained Enterprise WordPress installation
● Built various tools based on specified requirements
Full-stack developer and maintainer of custom CMS solution for a marketing firm and all client sites, later converting everything to WordPress