Ben Michel
Technical Evangelist at Datadog
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Michel is a Technical Evangelist with 11 years of experience championing developer communities and platform adoption, currently advocating for Datadog. He has built DevRel from the ground up at InVision, designing developer experiences for public APIs, SDKs, and documentation while establishing internal DevRel practices and open source guilds. A hands-on engineer earlier in his career, Ben shipped cross-platform Electron apps and interactive medical visualizations using React, Redux, Node.js, and SVG. He’s active in the OpenJS/Node.js ecosystem and participates in standards groups like tc39 and the Unicode Consortium, bringing protocol and standards awareness into developer advocacy. Based in Bend, Oregon, he blends product-facing evangelism with practical engineering chops and a knack for community-first project bootstrapping. One less obvious strength: he pairs technical training with creative approaches (including musical and immersive learning) to make developer education memorable and sticky.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, General Studies, Associate of Science - AS, General Studies at Portland Community College
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
tsc10
windows10
javascript10
linux10
js10
rocket10
macos10
nodejs10
nextjs10
internationalization9
crowdin9
collaboration9
drag-and-drop9
usergroup9
foundation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
obensource/play-live-server
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Simple servers which enable realtime distributed music & audio performance
Contributions:3 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
realtimeaudio-streamingmopidystreamingmusic-streaming
obensource/obensource.com
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
obensource's personal residence in cyberville📍
Contributions:14 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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