Ben E
Back End Developer at Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen E is a back-end developer with 11 years’ experience building networking, infrastructure, and security-focused systems across ISPs, non-profits, and research tooling. Comfortable in Go, Python, and TypeScript, he has delivered APIs and provisioning tooling that slashed device setup times and built resilient platform automation for production services, including containerized GitLab CI/CD pipelines. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation he combined hands-on operations with mentoring and training, creating self-service deployment flows and onboarding new admins into test-driven DevOps practices. His open-source QA work touches notable projects like EFF’s Privacy Badger and Bettercap, improving test coverage and automation for privacy and network tooling. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a master’s in mathematics, he brings a blend of rigorous analytical thinking and a people-first approach to building healthy, high-performing teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Participant (12 week retreat), Participant (12 week retreat) at The Recurse CenterMaster’s Degree, Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Mathematics at Mississippi State University
English
Stackoverflow
438reputation
42kreached
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
selenium10
testing10
selenium-ide10
go10
webextension10
wifi10
test-automation10
javascript9
google-chrome-extension8
chrome-extension8
fingerprinting8
fingerprint8
python7
dictionary6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bettercap/bettercap
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 PRs, 9 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure of the project. This includes adding new test cases for existing functionalities like wifi.ap and net_linux.go, as well as the core components. The user also increased code coverage across several modules, indicating a focus on comprehensive testing. Furthermore, they fixed existing functionality based on the commit messages and code changes.
proxyipv4deauthentication-attackaircrack-ngmitm-attacks
EFForg/privacybadger
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on modifying and maintaining testing-related files within the repository. They made changes to the `tests/selenium` directory, renaming and removing test files. The commits involved updating test configurations related to the `yellowlist` functionality, and adapting the testing scripts to reflect changes in the core codebase. This indicates an involvement in ensuring the quality and functionality of the Privacy Badger extension through automated testing.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
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