Ben Prew
Staff Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Prew is a seasoned systems and data engineer with nearly two decades of experience building high-throughput pipelines and performance-critical systems for companies ranging from startups to Meta. He has led teams and architectures for telemetry and analytics pipelines, reduced latency and cost, and shipped full CI/CD and IaC-driven platforms using Ruby, Go, Node, and cloud services. Comfortable both as a hands-on implementer and technical leader, he has built embedded device stacks, device-management services, and backend systems that span from C and Python on devices to large-scale data processing in the cloud. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem, he modernized the popular pony mail library by adding HTML, attachments, charset support and migrating it to the Mail gem. Based in Portland, OR, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship and a history of improving reliability and developer workflows. He’s especially skilled at translating operational pain points into scalable, maintainable pipeline designs.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at George Fox University
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Github Skills (16)
send-email10
e-mail10
sendmail10
mailsender10
emailjs10
ruby10
smtp9
smtps9
rspec9
smtpd9
vi6
vim6
pony6
sinatra6
text-editor6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benprew/pony
Jul 2009 - Apr 2020
The express way to send mail from Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on enhancing the functionality of the `pony` library, a Ruby-based mail sender. They implemented features such as HTML content type, attachments, and character set support. The user also refactored the code to utilize the Mail gem, replacing the TMail gem for email generation. Further contributions include bug fixes and updates, demonstrating a commitment to improving the library's reliability and feature set.
mailrailsemailexpressruby
benprew/mtg
Jan 2009 - Jul 2020
Magic the Gathering CCG pricing tool
Contributions:392 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 years 8 months
pythongatheringmagicccgpricing
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