Ben Orenstein
Board Member at Tuple
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Orenstein is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building developer tools and teams from product concept to market. As co-founder and former CEO of Tuple, he helped create a remote pair-programming tool and now serves as Head of Product and Board Member, blending deep product instincts with hands-on engineering. His roots in Ruby development and significant contributions to projects like rspec-expectations show a focus on maintainable, well-tested back-end code and thoughtful API design. At thoughtbot he scaled a training business (upcase.com) after starting as a developer, demonstrating an ability to move between craft, team leadership, and business outcomes. Based in Boston, he combines startup grit with academic grounding in computer science from UMass Amherst. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that improve developer experience and for shipping elegant solutions to thorny encoding and testing problems.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (7)
testing10
rspec10
character-encoding10
text-encoding10
encoding10
ruby10
refactoring9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rspec/rspec-expectations
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Provides a readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the `rspec-expectations` library. Their work involved extracting domain methods, and handling string encoding for improved diff output. The user also contributed to the test suite, adding coverage for the new `EncodedString` class and ensuring correct behavior across various string encodings and Ruby versions. Furthermore, the user worked on adding a `with_message` method, along with the corresponding error handling.
apiexpressjsreadablejavascriptexpress
r00k/AMA
Mar 2015 - Oct 2021
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Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 71 comments in 6 years 8 months
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