Ben Potter
Product - OSS & Developer Relations
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Potter is a product leader and developer-relations professional with nine years of experience helping teams move development into the cloud at Coder. He has progressed from developer advocate to VP of Product and now focuses on open source and community, blending hands-on engineering with product strategy. Ben’s engineering contributions—particularly to coder/coder and deploy-code-server—show practical DevOps chops: Terraform-based remote dev environments, ARM builds, macOS install fixes, and automation scripts that simplify cloud deployments. He’s skilled at turning developer pain points into deployable tooling and scalable product orgs, having built PM, docs, and design functions while shipping enterprise-ready remote development. Based in Austin, he pairs a New Media Interactive Development background with a creator streak (founding an influential coding presence on Instagram), giving him a user-focused perspective on developer experience. Colleagues rely on him to bridge community feedback, open-source maintenance, and product execution to accelerate cloud-native workflows.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
New Media Interactive Development, New Media Interactive Development at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHelix Charter High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
devtools10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
rclone10
automations10
devops10
architecture9
remote-development9
linux9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
coder/deploy-code-server
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Deploy code-server to the cloud with a few clicks ☁️ 👨🏼💻
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 135 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on automating and extending the functionality of a code-server deployment. They implemented features using bash scripting, including integrating rclone for file synchronization and cloud storage configuration. The user also worked on containerization by adding VS Code tasks to deploy the code-server and incorporated support for dotfiles for customizing the user environment. The majority of commits revolve around the creation of deployment scripts and automation workflows.
code-server
coder/coder
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Secure environments for developers and their agents
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:872 reviews, 169 commits, 518 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on infrastructure-related tasks, including upgrading dependencies and build configurations. Their contributions include updating the `hc-install` package, which is likely related to the tool's underlying dependencies, and implementing ARM architecture builds for releases and agent scripts, enhancing cross-platform compatibility. Further work included a one-line install script, which involved substantial changes, and fixing installation-related issues on macOS, demonstrating a strong understanding of build processes and deployment.
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