About

Welcome! I’m Ben, and this is my home on the internet.

I’m a software developer coming to you from Warner Bros. Digital Labs working on DCUniverse.com and other high-traffic and -visibility webapps, and from EditShare writing high-performance Python code for video servers, and currently from EquityZen.com, where I develop performant GraphQL APIs, microservices, and data pipelines supporting a top-tier investment application.

More data about me:

  • 🕷️ Software developer (Python, GraphQL, REST, databases)
  • 🔥 Climate activist
  • ♊ Twin parent
  • 🥧 Baking & cooking enthusiast
  • 🎸 Folk fingerstyle guitarist
  • ✏️ Novice artist

About signmaker.dev

“signmaker” is an old screen name. One of my favorite characters is the Sign Painter from the puzzle game World of Goo. I call my site signmaker.dev because putting up signs (or labels, web sites, code comments…) is a pro-social, semantically deep act that can have profound consequences in a system. As you might expect, I own a label maker and know how to use it.

On a less philosophical note, this site is made with open-source software: