Ben Purinton
Head Of Operations & Full-Stack Developer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Purinton is a multidisciplinary technologist and earth scientist with 11 years of experience blending full-stack development, product operations, and remote sensing research. As Head of Operations & Full-Stack Developer at First Draft he builds a beginner-friendly interactive coding platform (firstdraft.com) and integrates AI tutoring while running day-to-day ops and tooling across Rails/Hotwire, JS, PostgreSQL, Docker and AWS. Concurrently he advances high-resolution surface-model algorithms as a research scientist at the University of Washington, bringing production-grade data-processing and GIS experience from a PhD in remote sensing. He teaches practical app development to business students and has a track record of open-source scientific software and peer-reviewed publications, demonstrating an unusual mix of pedagogy, research rigor, and product-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Earth & Environmental Sciences, 3.84, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Earth & Environmental Sciences, 3.84 at Wesleyan UniversityVisiting Student, Geology, Visiting Student, Geology at Miami UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, magna cum laude, Remote Sensing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, magna cum laude, Remote Sensing at University of Potsdam
German
Github Skills (72)
imagery10
planetary10
raster10
vector10
bed10
planets10
stereo10
post-processing9
rasterio9
translator9
gdal9
geodesy9
data-formats9
viewer9
geospatial9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bpurinton/DEM_fourier_noise
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Matlab code for DEM noise analysis using 2D DFT
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
matlabperlin-noisematlab-codenoisedem
appdev-projects/photogram-ajax
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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