Ben Gubler
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Gubler is a software engineer and researcher blending open-source backend work with LLM research, currently pursuing dual degrees in Applied & Computational Mathematics and Arabic at BYU. He has nine years of experience shipping developer tools and web apps—most notably contributing to Eta, a lightweight TypeScript template engine with 1K+ stars and widespread use—and interned on Next.js/Turbopack at Vercel. In research roles he trains and probes large models (e.g., fine-tuning LLaMA 70B) using SLURM, Docker, and enroot, while designing experiments for mechanistic interpretability and alignment. Ben writes production-ready code across Node/TypeScript and PyTorch, builds language-learning apps (tinylingo, decline) and speaks English, Czech, and Slovak while studying Arabic and Russian—an unusual mix that informs multilingual evaluation and tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
website-development10
domain-name10
typescript10
template-engine10
custom-domain10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
website-design10
subdomain10
react10
documentation10
testing9
dns9
html9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bgub/eta
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Embedded JS template engine for Node, Deno, and the browser. Lighweight, fast, and pluggable. Written in TypeScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 31 reviews, 261 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben made changes to the `eta-dev/eta` repository by modifying code in the `dist/` folder and creating `dist/browser/` to fit the existing template engine project. They focused on core JavaScript functionality and modified the code to fit Eta. They also worked on finishing basic tests and fixing bugs with newline statements.
denojs-templatetypescriptnodejsdeno-module
js-org/js.org
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `js-org/js.org` repository by managing and updating the `cnames_active.js` file, which appears to manage domain mappings. They added and updated subdomain entries, specifically related to the "Squirrelly" template engine and other JavaScript-related projects. The contributions involved modifying domain configurations, updating website hosting providers, and removing or re-adding specific flags.
javascriptdnsdomaincustom-domains
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