Ben Ellis
Software Engineer at On-Site.com
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ellis is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years building web applications, currently working with Ruby on Rails and JRuby from Rome while open to remote or freelance roles. Born in London and raised in the Bay Area, he brings an international perspective and dual US/UK citizenship to projects spanning startups and portal integrations across Europe. His background combines hands-on full-stack development (Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, PostgreSQL/MySQL) with ops-aware skills like deployment automation and query tuning, and he has led engineering teams and cross-functional initiatives at Excite Italia. Notable work includes mapping social apps and mobile-optimized Rails sites, porting legacy PHP catalogs to Rails, and shipping accessibility-tested, theme-driven portals for enterprise clients. Comfortable liaising with non-technical stakeholders, he blends product sensibility, localization experience across multiple languages, and a pragmatic focus on maintainable, deployable systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Philosophy, M.A., Philosophy at University of WashingtonProject Management, Project Management at SDA BocconiUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (126)
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
concurrency10
jruby10
kafka-consumer10
jvm10
kafka10
rails10
apache-kafka10
kafka-producer10
avro9
interactive9
api9
ksqldb9
stream9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
benissimo/jruby-openssl
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
JRuby's OpenSSL gem
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
sslsecuritytlsgemjruby
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