Ben Eills
Software Developer at Apple
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Eills is a software developer with 14 years' experience applying mathematical rigor to practical engineering problems, currently building systems at Apple with a focus on Java and Python. He has a strong background in systems and cloud software from roles at IBM and Genestack, plus startup experience founding CoderAudit where he automated analysis of open-source contributions. An Oxford MMath, Ben combines formal mathematical training with hands-on C, Rust and higher-level language work—he contributed to the cross-platform uutils/coreutils Rust project by implementing the install utility. He’s comfortable across the stack, shipping performant network and storage code as well as data-visualisation pipelines for large genomic datasets. Based in Cambridge, he’s an active open-source contributor whose eclectic self-taught interests have led to expertise in both mainstream and more esoteric technologies.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, 2.1, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, 2.1 at University of OxfordA Levels, Maths (A*), Further Maths (A*), Physics (A), Politics (B), English Language (A), A Levels, Maths (A*), Further Maths (A*), Physics (A), Politics (B), English Language (A) at Varndean College
English, German, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
getopt10
getopts10
coreutils10
command-line-tool10
rust10
filesystem9
libc9
file-operations9
fileio9
testing8
ruby-on-rails6
file-upload6
excel6
querystring6
environment-variables6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uutils/coreutils
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `install` utility within the `coreutils` project, focusing on implementing its core functionality. Their work involved adding the skeleton source, including setup based on GNU's `man install` documentation. Further contributions involved implementing basic installation functionality and adding the creation of component directories. The user also worked to implement the mode settings for install.
gnu-coreutilsrustcoreutilsbusyboxcross-platform
beneills/beeminder-showcase
Jun 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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