Benjamin Boruff
Developer at Self-employed
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Boruff is a web-focused developer based in San Diego with over a decade of hands-on experience bridging user support, systems administration, and security before transitioning into full-time software development. He builds backend-first web applications and is currently exploring Elm, Phoenix/Elixir while also experimenting with Go, Htmx, Hyperscript, Zig, and Pascal. His background at Indiana University gave him deep operational and security chops, which he brings to freelance and self-employed projects to deliver resilient, maintainable systems. Benjamin’s unconventional path—from philosophy and kinesiology degrees to security engineering and then coding—gives him a multidisciplinary perspective on problem solving and user needs. He maintains a developer story and portfolio that highlight practical deliveries and ongoing curiosity for new languages and web paradigms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Kinesiology - Applied Sport Science, Master of Science (MS), Kinesiology - Applied Sport Science at Indiana University Bloomington
English, a little german
Stackoverflow
2,779reputation
316kreached
2answers
2questions
jestjs
top-5%
Github Skills (93)
javascript10
fonts10
nodejs10
css10
react10
logos9
imagemin9
iconic9
branding9
math9
codebase9
buffer9
svg-font9
font-awesome9
jestjs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminboruff/blasteroids
Dec 2016 - May 2021
An Asteroids type game written in ES2015 using the Phaser framework
Contributions:11 PRs, 28 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 5 months
gamejavascriptasteroidsgame-developmentphaser
benjaminboruff/apod2
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
An alternative API endpoint service for NASA's APOD data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
apipythondockerapodendpoint
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