Ben Harold
Staff Software Engineer at ActiveCampaign
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Harold is a Staff Software Engineer in Indianapolis with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and a strong focus on security and code quality. At ActiveCampaign he progressed from Software Engineer to staff-level, leading complex projects and shaping engineering practices across the stack. He contributes to open-source, notably improving core utilities in the Fuel PHP framework by adding XML formatting and standards-compliant UUID generation. A former director of technology and longtime consultant, he combines startup and ops experience—designing data infrastructure, systems engineering, and production reliability. Outside work he’s an avid drag racer, a detail that mirrors his pragmatic, performance-driven approach to software design.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Paper Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Paper Science and Engineering at Miami University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
text-manipulation10
fuelphp10
uuid10
uid10
php10
f10
fuel10
apidoc9
libcurl9
laravel9
text-formatting9
api9
html6
abort6
laravel-scout6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fuel/core
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Fuel PHP Framework - The core of the Fuel v1 framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the `Format` and `Str` classes within the Fuel PHP framework. They added functionality to format XML output and implement a UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) generation method, replacing an existing, less compliant, 'uid' method. Further contributions included fixing code indentation to maintain code quality and address potential formatting issues.
fuelphpphpfuel-v1
benharold/voltage
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 200 commits, 35 pushes in 7 months
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