Welcome to my Website
My name is Ben. My main job is writing software and I've been doing it for a paycheck since 2008 at companies big and small. I also went viral once with some friends for being good at Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
You may know me around the internet at:
You may have seen some things I made:
- isthereaseattlehomegametoday.com does what it says on the tin
- HQ Trivia Bot is an experiment in reverse engineering, language processing, and knowledge
- AuthThingie 2 is a forward-auth authentication system for reverse proxies. It supports 2FA and passkeys too!
- bucket-stream is a useful tool for building 24/7 Twitch streams from videos in an S3 bucket
You may be curious about places I've worked:
- A video game company (2020 - present) where I am working on some secret stuff. Mostly online services related.
- A financial services company that originated loans (2015 - 2020) where I worked on software to validate that loans confirmed to jurisdictional rules as well as document analysis using NLP and OCR.
- A large tech company named after a river (2008 - 2015) where I worked on digital video encoders, CD/DVD replication and authoring, and e-reader software.
You may wonder how to get a hold of me:
- Honestly, just DM me on Bluesky. My DMs are open.