Ben Hughes
Software Engineer at Rubidiom, LLC
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hughes is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building and scaling web applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails and modern front-end tools like React. As the founding engineer and later Principal Software Engineer at Loomly, he helped evolve a prototype into a full-featured product and led architecture for complex, high-profile features. He has a long history of consulting through his own firm and contributing to open-source—most notably enhancing authentication in the Sorcery Rails library to support persistent, multi-browser logins and session invalidation. Based in San Diego, Ben pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking to deliver elegant solutions and reliable systems. Outside of work he’s a jazz pianist and travel hacker, a detail that speaks to creative problem-solving and curiosity beyond code.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Economics, Information Techology, BS, Economics, Information Techology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
testing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NoamB/sorcery
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Magical authentication for Rails 3 & 4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ben focused on enhancing the authentication features of the Sorcery library for Rails. Their contributions involved adding configuration options for managing "remember me" tokens, allowing for persistent logins across multiple browsers and introducing an API to invalidate all sessions. These changes addressed specific issues related to user login behavior. The commits also included the creation of new tests to validate the introduced features.
railsauthenticationrubyspree
rubiety/ruby_scribe
Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
Contributions:57 commits in 1 year 5 months
rubysyntax-treeabstract-syntax-treeparserformatted
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