Benjamin Craton
Founder, Principal Consultant at OnBoard
Saare maakond, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Craton is a security-minded technology founder and principal consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience spanning Linux systems support, enterprise MMIS solutions, product and data leadership, and security/compliance for SaaS. He has driven ISO 27001/27701 and SOC 2 Type 2 readiness with zero non-conformities, led cross-functional AI compliance work for LLM adoption, and built enterprise data platforms from ground zero to production in a single quarter. Comfortable toggling between developer, scrum master, and product-owner roles, he combines systems programming curiosity (favorite stack: Zig/Nix) with pragmatic risk management and incident leadership. He founded Star City Security Consulting to bring practical, audit-ready data security to SMBs while still dabbling in electronics, 3D printing, and audio processing—skills that reflect a maker’s approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History of Science and Technology, B.A. History of Science and Technology at Purdue University
English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
smoke10
linux10
carrier10
pigeon9
katakana9
sum9
markov9
kanji9
latex8
cvs8
golang8
markov-chain8
encoding8
docker8
xml8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tsunaminoai/baseEmoji
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
baseEmoji is a base1024 encoding scheme that uses emoji as its lookup table. The primary purpose is to represent otherwise ugly data in more "pleasing" form in social media.
Contributions:4 releases, 43 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 6 months
schemeemojikatakanaencodingpurpose
tsunaminoai/nix-flake-final
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 169 pushes, 16 branches in 7 months
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