Ben Moon
Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Summary
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RockstarBen Moon is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, test automation, and tooling, with a particular affinity for Perl and Linux. He contributes to privacy-focused projects at DuckDuckGo, improving Instant Answers infrastructure and writing robust parsers and data generators that enhance search features. His work ranges from fixing subtle numeric parsing bugs to implementing new features like Caesar cipher and multilingual generators, demonstrating attention to correctness and internationalization. Ben also contributes to developer tooling—maintaining elisp package recipes for el-get—showing a full-stack mindset that spans code, build processes, and documentation. Quietly thorough, he often tackles edge cases and improves testability and data quality rather than just adding surface features.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
768reputation
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Github Skills (34)
dependency-management10
scripting10
testing10
data-manipulation10
perl10
regular-expression10
instant-view10
perl-module10
elisp10
instantsearch10
boolean-logic9
datetime9
if-statement9
datetimes9
cryptography9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1092 commits, 377 PRs, 416 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. They fixed a significant bug related to the calculator's handling of scientific notation in mathematical expressions and another bug involving the spacing of minus signs. Furthermore, the user implemented a Caesar cipher functionality, adding both the necessary code for the cipher and meta-data for the Goodie, while also including additional triggers. Lastly, they integrated a new "Gibberish Generator" Goodie into the project, incorporating support for multiple languages.
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duckduckgo/duckduckgo
Dec 2015 - May 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answer Infrastructure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:43 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the DuckDuckGo Instant Answer infrastructure. They refactored and updated the code related to instant answers, removing deprecated features and legacy code. The user also implemented improvements to the testing framework by adding and modifying timezones. The changes involved updating and refactoring code related to location and testing, improving the ability to filter instant answers.
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