Ben Webber
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Webber is a seasoned CFO/COO with over twenty years helping privately held creative service firms — from post production and VFX studios to professional services — turn strategy into measurable results through hands-on finance, operations, and project management. He designs budgeting, reporting and workflow systems, manages capital raises, restructurings, legal and audit engagements, and has overseen construction of studios and technical facilities. Trusted by owners, boards and investors, he combines meticulous financial stewardship with pragmatic change leadership and talent development. A QuickBooks Pro Advisor with startup experience, he also contributes to open-source tooling and niche projects (including LaTeX typesetting and DevOps utilities), reflecting a practical, technical curiosity beyond traditional finance roles.
13 years of coding experience
BA, BA at University of MichiganKellogg School of Management
French
Github Skills (12)
dnd-kit10
consul10
latex10
go10
dnd-tools10
tex10
testing10
git9
automations8
automation8
yaml7
json7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 23 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on developing the LaTeX package for typesetting D&D 5e material. Their work included modifying the itemize style, adjusting bullet alignment and list spacing, adding and converting a \spell macro and environment for custom spell typesetting, and converting hard-coded margins. They also introduced and refactored color management, including trim colors and stat block backgrounds.
latexmkxelatexrpgpostergreatest
breser/git2consul
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Mirrors the contents of a git repository into Consul KVs.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Ben focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the `git2consul` tool. They implemented changes to handle file extensions correctly, specifically for JSON, YAML, and properties files, ensuring that these files are correctly processed and stored in Consul. The user also refactored the test suite, including renaming tests, extracting configuration fixtures, and adding new tests for known and unknown file types. These contributions improved the tool's stability and expanded its capabilities.
git-repositorygitflowmirrorskvsconsul
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