I'm Ben! I use he or they pronouns.
I recently completed a batch at the Recurse Center, which you can read a bit about on my blog. Before that, I built out infrastructure at EFF. I've also worked with community networks, ISPs, live event networks, and more.
Things I like:
- Network programming and backend development in Go and Python
- Web scraping, data wrangling, and building tools to support journalism and digital research
- Math - mostly recreationally, but I love when it fits into my work!
- Challenge sets and CTFs - Protohackers, Cryptopals, Hanukkah of Data, etc
- People! I'm passionate about how different folks learn and grow together, how to maintain happy and healthy teams, and things like that. People are cool.