Benjamin Young
Developer Engagement Director And Engineering Manager at REST Fest
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Young is a Developer Engagement Engineer with a decade of experience building developer experiences and advocating for open web standards, currently focused on W3C Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, and CHAPI at Digital Bazaar. He combines hands-on engineering with community leadership—co-chairing the JSON-LD Working Group, contributing to Web Annotation and ActivityPub efforts, and serving as an Apache CouchDB committer and Annotator PPMC member. Benjamin has a long history of developer advocacy and product work across startups and enterprises, from creating the BlueInk CMS and running BigBlueHat to shaping digital publishing and annotation at John Wiley & Sons. He excels at translating standards into practical developer tools and lives at the intersection of UX, APIs, and decentralized identity. A Greenville, SC-based software engineer, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and deep open-source cred to complex web specification and developer experience challenges.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Graphic Design, BS Graphic Design at Bob Jones University
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (4)
java5
full-stack3
javascript3
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jbenjaminy/backgammon-js
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
http://backgammon.jbenjaminy.com
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 63 pushes in 3 years 3 months
backgammonjava
jbenjaminy/RxMinder
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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