Ben Cates
Web Developer at Ideum
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolBen Cates is a seasoned full-stack web developer with 15 years of experience building production web applications, currently focused on Ruby on Rails at Ideum in Albuquerque. His background spans Rails, Node, AngularJS, PHP, Magento, and JavaScript, with early roles improving prescription management systems for elder care and constructing eCommerce platforms for mid-to-large businesses. A Vanderbilt Computer Science graduate, he combines strong back-end design with practical front-end delivery and a track record of maintaining long-term product codebases. Comfortable working across startups, agencies, and in-house teams, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a commitment to reliable shipping. Outside typical role descriptions, his career shows a pattern of bridging operations and development—from network administration to leading technical teams—which helps him anticipate deployment and maintenance challenges.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (101)
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ruby9
web-development9
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elixir9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bencates/Jasmine-Prototype
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Jasmine matchers and fixture loader for Prototype projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
jasmine-matchers
system76/easy_post
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 8 months
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