Ben Rudolph
Co-Founder at Ben Rudolph Photography
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Rudolph is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founding Peregrine Technologies in San Francisco to help mission-critical government institutions solve their most important problems, from combating mass-scale wildfires to coordinating emergency services. With 13 years of experience, he spans backend, databases, and user-focused platforms, driving Peregrine’s secure data fusion and collaborative analytics. His open-source work includes significant contributions to the pouchdb project as a backend and database engineer, where he built a meta-store in IndexedDB to track update_seq, migrated API IDs storage from localStorage to IndexedDB, and added document validation to strengthen data integrity. Ben holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and has previously served as a software engineer at Dimagi and UNHCR, bringing field-tested experience to mission-driven software. Based in San Francisco, he also pursues photography, underscoring a practical, hands-on approach to turning complex requirements into reliable, user-friendly solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
javascripts10
database-design10
file-upload10
indexeddb10
database-optimization10
couchdb9
jquery9
databases9
pouchdb9
dom-events9
database9
html9
blueprintjs6
zooming6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pouchdb/pouchdb
Jan 2013 - May 2013
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:70 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on database-related improvements and refactoring within the PouchDB project. Their work included creating a meta-store object store within IndexedDB to save the `update_seq` value, optimizing database refresh behavior. They also implemented changes to use IndexedDB instead of local storage to store API IDs. Furthermore, they added support for doc validation, improving the database's integrity and robustness.
pocketjavascriptdatabasepouchdbcouchdb
peregrine-io/datadog-checks
Sep 2018 - Apr 2022
Custom Datadog checks
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
risk-assessmentchecksdatadogqbcore-framework
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