Ben Edmunds
Staff Engineer at Ninety
Columbus, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Edmunds is a Staff Engineer with 16 years of experience building developer platforms and scalable web systems, currently leading engineering at Ninety after staff roles at SeatGeek and Wayfair. He blends hands-on backend expertise in PHP and Node with leadership in developer acceleration, platformization, and team building—from CTO at Mindfulware to architecting service-oriented platforms. An active open-source contributor, Ben has long been involved with the CodeIgniter ecosystem and served on the PHP-FIG core committee, helping shape PHP interoperability and documentation. Based in Columbus, Georgia, he combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded leadership and a habit of turning legacy PHP codebases into maintainable, well-documented systems.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
php10
php-framework10
codeigniter10
back-end-development10
documentation10
coding-style9
enforcement9
web-framework8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benedmunds/CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth
Jan 2010 - Sep 2022
Simple and Lightweight Auth System for CodeIgniter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 1080 commits, 340 PRs in 12 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on code improvements and cleanup within the CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth project. Their commits involved changing and refactoring IF statements to adhere to CodeIgniter style, improving code formatting and adding comments. Additionally, the user addressed library bug fixes and addressed issues related to email settings and functionality.
codeigniterauthenticationjwtauth
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on bug fixes and documentation updates within the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Their contributions include addressing specific issues by removing unnecessary code, updating the user guide, and modifying helper functions. They also added changes and notes to the changelog, ensuring accurate project documentation. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying core framework files and related documentation.
phpframeworkphp-frameworkphp7php8
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