Benjamin Melançon
Principal at Agaric
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Melançon is a Principal web developer and open-source advocate with 17 years of experience building community-driven sites and custom Drupal modules at Agaric. He designs and ships web presences that prioritize client control and freedom from vendor lock-in, pairing hands-on development with hosting, training, and design services. Benjamin has led large collaborative projects—coordinating and authoring substantial portions of the Definitive Guide to Drupal—and has consulted for institutions like Harvard on science collaboration platforms. His work emphasizes democratic communication, constituent relationship integrations, and tools for fundraising and community resource sharing. Based in Minneapolis, he’s also founding a nonprofit, People Who Give a Damn, to advance civic power and justice through technology. A journalist-turned-developer, he combines storytelling and product focus with deep expertise in Drupal ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Natick High SchoolUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
behat10
web-application10
html-editor10
vim-mode-plus10
symfony-console10
chat10
webextension10
cpp10
edtech10
web-development10
thunderbird10
file-sharing10
knowledge-graph10
html10
diaspora10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
agaric/give
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:49 pushes, 10 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 11 months
agaric/giveauthnet
Apr 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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