Hey y'all, I'm Ben! 👋🏾
I am a Jesus follower (aka a Christian) living in Houston, Texas with my wife Rashida and our 3 children Simone, Avery and Asher. I was born and raised in the great city of Houston, Texas (go Rockets).
In addition to my handful of open source projects, I love teaching others to help them grow. I've given 150+ talks and workshops that have helped thousands all over the world level up their JavaScript, React, and overall frontend skills. I'm also a Google Developer Expert.
From the time I built my first website in 1998, I've been super passionate about the Web. I graduated from Stanford University and received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science with concentrations in Human-Computer Interaction (the closest I could get to web development back then).
Currently, I'm particularly passionate about building frontend systems. On the UI side that's React-based component libraries. But I also spend a lot of time working on frontend DivOps (aka Babel, Webpack, ESLint, packaging libraries, CI, etc).
I joined Stitch Fix in October 2019, tasked with building a new React-based Design System and helping to raise the level of frontend within the customer-facing organization. I've since mainly focused on improving the DivOps through creating a new web development platform on top of Next.js and adding a frontend monorepo with Turborepo. I've also worked for Eventbrite (4.5 years), Zazzle (9 years), Yahoo (summer), Amazon (summer), Microsoft (summer), Rice University (summer), and Stanford (various times).
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