Ben Busby
Lead Software Developer at Black Swift Technologies
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Busby is a Lead Software Developer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack and mobile systems, currently leading development of tablet controllers and cloud tooling for Black Swift Technologies' fixed-wing and multirotor drones. He blends real-time communication, mapping and flight-path visualization expertise with backend services—designing AWS-hosted pipelines, Postgres-backed telemetry stores, and secure build/distribution automation. Prior roles include implementing end-to-end encrypted messaging clients and JNI-based cryptography for Android, reflecting strong applied security and privacy instincts. Ben’s background in atmospheric research and NetCDF-based big-data processing informs a pragmatic approach to telemetry and analytics, while his avocational interest in game design and info-sec adds creative problem-solving and threat-aware design to product development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (130)
package-control10
servo10
python10
metasearch10
nintendo10
text-files10
heroku10
flask10
streaming10
duckduckgo10
matlab10
adblock10
keyboard10
camera10
raspberry-pi-camera10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
benbusby/colorstorm
May 2019 - Aug 2022
A color theme generator for editors and terminal emulators
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 155 commits in 3 years 3 months
vimvscodecolor-themessublimeearthbound
benbusby/nerd-fonts
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
iconspatchedsource-code-prowebfontsvariable-fonts
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