Ben Balter

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Summary

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Rockstar

Ben Balter is a seasoned technology leader with more than three decades of experience, currently serving as Director of Hubber Enablement at GitHub where he helps the company’s distributed workforce do their best work. He has led engineering operations and culture, served as Chief of Staff for Security, and as Senior Product Manager for Trust & Safety shipped 500+ features spanning community management, privacy, moderation, and platform health. As GitHub’s Government Evangelist he helped drive adoption of open source across 2,000 government organizations in 75 countries and was a Presidential Innovation Fellow who contributed to the U.S. Digital Government Strategy. An active open-source contributor, his code and tooling touch the Ruby/Jekyll ecosystem and GitHub projects like Octokit and choosealicense.com, along with utilities to liberate content from Word and WordPress into static sites. He holds a J.D. and M.B.A. from George Washington University, is a member of the DC Bar, and is fond of pragmatic, low-tech hacks—“duct tape, version control, and occasionally a pack of bubblegum”—that reflect his pragmatic problem-solving style.

33 years of coding experience

Github Skills (97)

cms10

github10

google-analytics10

testing10

plugin-development10

rspec10

ruby10

bootstra10

markdown10

rss10

octokit10

javascript10

seo10

rubygems10

wordpress10

Programming languages (19)

C#CSSC++CHandlebarsGoHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

pages-themes/hacker

Dec 2016 - Jan 2020

Hacker is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:3 releases, 60 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months

Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the front-end aspects of the Jekyll theme. Their work included normalizing stylesheet names, appending build revisions to break cache, incorporating asynchronous Google Analytics tracking, adding the `lang` property to the HTML tag, integrating Jekyll SEO Tag for improved page titles, and correcting style and validation errors. These changes indicate an effort to optimize the theme's performance, SEO, and overall user experience.

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pages-themes/dinky

Dec 2016 - Mar 2019

Dinky is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:3 releases, 53 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months

Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the front-end aspects of the Jekyll theme. Their contributions included normalizing stylesheet naming, appending build revisions to the stylesheet path for cache-busting, integrating async Google Analytics tracking, adding the `lang` property to the `<html>` tag, and implementing the use of Jekyll SEO Tag. Additionally, the user made style and validation corrections, and enforced SRI. These modifications indicate a focus on improving the performance, SEO, and maintainability of the theme's front-end code.

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