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My name is Ben 👋. Amongst many other roles, I am a professional Software Engineer. 🛠️

If you have landed on this page, I will assume you want to know more about me.

Quick Note: Most of my code activity over the past 2 years has almost exclusively been for work and lives in a "work" account (here) with no publicly accessible repos. If you are a hiring manager and looking for code samples, please contact me directly.

A few "metrics" for consideration.

While I don't usually like general categories for people, especially myself, I do find it useful info to share. Do with them what you will, but understand they don't define me. 😜

• Myers-Briggs
  • I/ESTJ at work
  • INFP/TJ outside of work
• DiSC
  • DC (Dominance/Conscientiousness) : Direct, Firm, Results-oriented, Analytical, Reserved, Precise, Private, Systematic
• Gallup Strengths Finder
  • Learner, Inputs, Intellection, Strategic, Belief
• Eniagram
  • people say I'm a solid 5. I mostly reject this "personality" test, out-of-hand, because has very flimsy empirical validation of testing and results. I see it more like a mood ring than a true representation of personality. If it helps you, fine. Just don't call me a number.

Being concise here is tough, since there are A LOT of general programming languages and other tools that I've had touchpoints with over my career to this point!

These are the things I use on an almost daily basis at work, and in my personal projects.

General Programming Languages

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Golang
• Python

Other Languages

• SQL
• GraphQL
• Yaml
• Markdown

Frameworks / Libraries / Technologies / Stacks

• Next.js
• AWS (RDS/EC2/ECS/SSM/SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB)
• JAM
• Node.js
• Docker
• Shell Programming (zsh / bash)
• HCL/Terraform

If I work in it occassionaly and/or am interested in it, it's in this list

Languages

• Rust
• Ruby
• Erlang
• Haskell
• PHP

Frameworks / Libraries / Technologies / Stacks

• OAuth
• Conda/Pandas/Numpy
• Serverless (AWS)
• Deno
• Django
• Rails
• Swagger/OpenAPI
• Jekyll

These are things that I've used, but have not had any meaningful interaction with on an ongoing basis.

• Java
• C#
• C/C++
• Perl
• UML/BPMN

Here are the tools I use personally and professionally

I have generally leaned towards macOS. For me it provides a good balance of very good developer experience, solid multimedia production support, and flexibility through tooling.

Although, being truly platform agnostic, I am neither a macOS or Windows "person".

I like debian, FreeBSD, and Lubuntu flavors of Linux. I will use Windows if forced too (i.e. gaming, or work). I am quite proficient in just about any mainline environment, and a few less visible ones (SCO Linux anyone?) 😉

• JetBrains Toolbox (IntelliJ, WebStorm, Goland, PyCharm, DataGrip, etc.)
• Tower (git client)
• iTerm
• vim
• VisualStudio Code
• Adobe CC (XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, AfterEffects)
• Figma
• ScreamingFrog SEO Spider
• Postman
• massCode

In addition to being a professional Software Engineer, I am also engaged in a handful of other roles either quasi-professionally, or "just for fun."

• Son / Father
• Armchair Theologian/Philosopher
• Musician / Producer
• 3D CAD and Modeling Amateur
• Fisherman
• Aspiring Outdoors-person
• Flailing (non-practicing) Brew Master
• Scale Modeler
• Wannabe DIY-er / Maker

• 🔭 I’m currently working on serverless/golang/mahjong game
• 🌱 I’m currently studying Golang microservices containerization
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on interesting Go, Python, or Rust projects with well organized teams using sane processes that are interested in building up the entire team
• 🤔 I’m looking for help with ... All The Things?
• 💬 Ask me about why I am experimenting with veganism
• 📫 How to reach me see the email on bencodesall.github.io
• 😄 Pronouns: Call me whatever, ... just don't call me late for dinner.
• ⚡ Fun fact: I was a Radio DJ at 2 student-run colleges radio stations

^{NOTE: Potentially paraphrased and/or incorrectly attributed}

"We perish for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."

G.K. Chesterton

• Vegimite

📁     ./folder/
|- 📄  file.txt

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