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 most recently from EquityZen.com, where I developed performant GraphQL APIs, microservices, and data pipelines supporting a top-tier investment application.
More data about me:
- 🕷️ Software developer and data engineer (Python, GraphQL, REST, Airflow, Athena)
- 🌲 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:
- it is built using pelican
- and a theme forked from Alexander Revicenzi,
- and is hosted on Netlify.