Ben Prew
Staff Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Prew is a Staff Data Engineer at Meta in Portland with over 20 years of experience designing systems, scaling big-data pipelines, and optimizing performance-critical services. He has driven architecture and delivery across startups and enterprises—leading Kongregate’s telemetry pipeline and CI/CD, serving as VP Engineering at 38 Zeros, and holding principal roles at Comscore. Technically fluent from Ruby/Rails and Node to Go, C and Python, he repeatedly cuts latency and costs on AWS using IaC and data warehousing (Redshift/Postgres). He contributes to open source as well, improving the Ruby pony mailer by adding HTML, attachments and charset support and migrating it from TMail to the Mail gem. Comfortable from embedded Atheros SoC firmware to petabyte-scale analytics, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring to build teams and processes that raise quality and developer discipline.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at George Fox University
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Github Skills (17)
mail-sender10
sendmail10
send-email10
send-mail10
ruby10
e-mail10
emailjs10
smtp9
smtps9
rspec9
smtpd9
pony6
vi6
vim6
sinatra6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benprew/pony
Jul 2009 - Apr 2020
The express way to send mail from Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on enhancing the functionality of the `pony` library, a Ruby-based mail sender. They implemented features such as HTML content type, attachments, and character set support. The user also refactored the code to utilize the Mail gem, replacing the TMail gem for email generation. Further contributions include bug fixes and updates, demonstrating a commitment to improving the library's reliability and feature set.
mailrailsemailexpressruby
benprew/mtg
Jan 2009 - Jul 2020
Magic the Gathering CCG pricing tool
Contributions:392 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 years 8 months
pythongatheringmagicccgpricing
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