Ben Rudolph
Co-Founder at Ben Rudolph Photography
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Rudolph is a Co-Founder and software engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, zero-downtime web systems for mission-critical public sector use. Based in San Francisco, he leads Peregrine Technologies where he designs secure, data-fusing platforms that help governments and emergency services fight wildfires, combat trafficking, and coordinate disaster response. He brings deep backend and database expertise—illustrated by contributions to the widely used PouchDB project, where he improved IndexedDB-backed storage and validation to harden offline-first databases. A Stanford CS graduate and former engineer at Dimagi and UNHCR, Ben blends field-informed product design with production-grade engineering. Beyond software, he pursues photography professionally, a discipline that informs his attention to detail and user-facing design.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Waubonsie Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
database-design10
file-upload10
indexeddb10
database-optimization10
couchdb9
jquery9
databases9
pouchdb9
dom-events9
database9
html9
blueprintjs6
zooming6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pouchdb
Jan 2013 - May 2013
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:70 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on database-related improvements and refactoring within the PouchDB project. Their work included creating a meta-store object store within IndexedDB to save the `update_seq` value, optimizing database refresh behavior. They also implemented changes to use IndexedDB instead of local storage to store API IDs. Furthermore, they added support for doc validation, improving the database's integrity and robustness.
databasepouchdbjavascriptcouchdb
peregrine-io/datadog-checks
Sep 2018 - Apr 2022
Custom Datadog checks
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
risk-assessmentchecksdatadogqbcore-framework
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