Ben Halpern
Founder In Residence at Forem
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Halpern is a founder and full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building developer-focused communities and products from the ground up. As Co-Founder of Forem (dev.to) and current Founder in Residence at Major League Hacking, he blends hands-on backend engineering with community design to make developer spaces more inclusive and productive. He has led engineering teams as CTO at Argo and shipped practical platform improvements—fixing deployment and rendering bugs, enhancing search, and building admin-driven interfaces—in the widely used open-source Forem project. Ben pairs entrepreneurial instincts (he founded Ben's Web and worked on early social-growth efforts) with sustained open-source stewardship, actively contributing to forem/forem’s codebase. Based in New York, he favors pragmatic solutions that scale community impact rather than flashy tech for its own sake. His career shows a consistent focus on tooling and infrastructure that directly improves developer experience and community health.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mount Allison University
Github Skills (7)
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
databases9
database9
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1064 reviews, 1303 commits, 5537 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focused on modifying back-end logic, specifically addressing deployment issues and adding new reserved words to the system's configuration. Their work involved fixing double rendering issues, enhancing search functionality, and adding data update scripts. They also contributed to the implementation of the "admin-based" web interface.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
benhalpern/benhalpern.github.io
Nov 2014 - Aug 2021
Ben Halpern's personal page
Contributions:105 commits, 1 PR, 84 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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