Ben Wills
Self Employed
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Wills is a founder-engineer and CEO of OppAlerts who blends 20+ years in search marketing with deep, low-level software engineering to turn massive unstructured datasets into actionable marketing intelligence. He built and sold technology-driven services such as Ontolo and has hands-on experience from microcontroller firmware and embedded networking to high-performance C/C++ web scrapers, distributed databases, and full-stack web interfaces. Ben thrives on performance and efficiency—designing things like a SIMD robin-hood hash table—and prefers solving whole-system problems rather than isolated components. Based in Boulder, he now focuses on scaling OppAlerts’ data collection, parsing, indexing, and subscription monitoring services to help marketers prospect smarter. A longtime practitioner of SEO who also architected operations for fast-growth search firms, he brings a rare combination of marketing domain insight and low-level engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
Github Skills (90)
search-api10
cpp10
search-server10
api10
database10
json10
php-extension10
full-text-search10
sphinxsearch10
sublime-text9
pgsql9
sql9
elk9
high-performance9
sublime9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benwills/proposal-warc-to-zstandard
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
benwills/CustHash
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:68 pushes in 5 months
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