Ben Arent
Director Of Product at Teleport
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Arent is a product and developer-relations leader with 14 years of experience building cross-functional teams and bridging product, engineering, design and community. Based in Oakland, he currently serves as Director of Product at Teleport after scaling their DevRel organization—running awareness, education, retention and adoption programs, launching a YouTube channel, and chairing the company’s first user conference. He combines hands-on engineering chops (contributions to projects like the Airbrake JavaScript notifier) with practical technical writing and docs stewardship for the Teleport open-source project. Earlier roles include founding and exiting a developer-focused startup, leading UX at SolarWinds during major product merges, and managing developer tools at Rackspace. Known for making “trouble with ones and zeros,” he blends entrepreneurial grit, design sensibility, and a knack for turning community feedback into scalable product and content strategies.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Product Design, BA Product Design at Middlesex University
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Github Skills (20)
markdown10
error-reporting10
git10
javascript10
apidoc10
airbrake10
api10
markdown-it10
version-control10
documentation10
exceptions9
teleport9
arduino6
atmega6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
May 2019 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:644 reviews, 327 commits, 603 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focus on updating and maintaining the documentation for the Teleport project. This includes cloning and adapting documentation for different versions (3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4), as well as incorporating enhancements such as theme updates, the addition of a theme switcher, and integrating Zoho PageSense for feedback. Additionally, the user is responsible for correcting broken images and footer elements, and making adjustments to the documentation's layout and style.
pamsshrdpjumpserversecure
airbrake/airbrake-js
Jul 2012 - Nov 2013
Airbrake JavaScript Notifier
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Airbrake JavaScript notifier. Their contributions involved modifying the core notifier code, specifically the `src/notifier.js` and `dist/notifier.js` and `dist/notifier.min.js` files. These changes included updating API endpoints and version numbers. The user also worked on adding support for JSON output format.
javascriptairbrakenotifiererror-reporting
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