Ben Weller

Ben Weller

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ABOUT ME
Silicon Alley Veteran - Former NYC Startup CTO and Senior Developer
Silicon Alley Veteran - Former NYC Startup CTO and Senior Developer

I've spent years working as a Developer / Senior Developer / CTO for venture-backed startups. Having tackled the real world problems faced when building and shipping scalable, maintainable code, I'm here to share the knowledge that I've gained.

I'd like to help you solve problems big and small, from development to deployment.

English
Central Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined November 2016
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
RefactorSoftware architectsDebugging
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RefactorSoftware architectsDebuggingBack-End
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10 years experience
RefactorSoftware architectsDebugging
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RefactorSoftware architectsDebuggingBack-End
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5 years experience
DeployOperationsSoftware architects
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DeployOperationsSoftware architectsDevOps
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5 years experience
Software architectsMicroservicesScalability
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Software architectsMicroservicesScalabilityNode.js
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EMPLOYMENTS
Founder
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2017-01-01-Present
Using machine learning to enable nightlife security workers to operate in a proactive manner. Software Engineer October 2015 - January 20...
Using machine learning to enable nightlife security workers to operate in a proactive manner. Software Engineer October 2015 - January 2016(4 months) Assisted CTO in cleanup and refactoring of existing Node.js codebase. Developed Safari / Chrome / Firefox based on existing API specifications. Undertook modifications to front-end web application based on Node.js with Angular.js. Co-Founder & CTOat Lately September 2014 - August 2015(1 year) Lately revolutionizes marketing with the first, comprehensive, cloud-based marketing management platform. Marketers can plan, execute and track campaigns with one tool on one tab. Any team. Any time. Goodbye crazy spreadsheets. Hello collaborative-marketing-made-easy. With Lately, everyone’s in sync, everyone’s up-to-date, everything's in one place. Even management gets real-time visibility. What CRM does for sales teams, Lately does for marketing teams. Less effort, improved oversight - and best of all - amazing results. Plus, Lately includes guided templates and prompts so even novice marketers can plan like pros. CTO October 2012 - August 2013(11 months) Maintained, improved and extended legacy back-end API in support of evolving product needs for iOS client. Built a "qualified offers platform" based upon participation, demographics and other relevant data to enable delivery of rewards to top users. Developed an analytics dashboard to enable partner companies to identify their most valuable customers based on multiple metrics. Lead Engineerat Kohort January 2011 - September 2012(1 year 9 months) Built an architecture to support complex product requirements. Developed solutions to offload operations, via a message queue, to workers in Erlang, Node.js and PHP. Built RESTful services to allow for more granular scaling. Identified and integrated appropriate NoSQL database solutions. Worked with the team to continuously improve development processes and code quality, especially modularity, testability and separation of concerns. ...
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Founder
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2015-08-01-Present
At E9 Labs we specialize in taking the pain out of deployments and providing your developers with predictable and repeatable automated de...
At E9 Labs we specialize in taking the pain out of deployments and providing your developers with predictable and repeatable automated deployments. Specifically, we take advantage of the robust array of services provided by AWS in concert with custom CLI and/or GUI tools to enable development teams to focus on what they do best: shipping features and enhancements for the benefit of end-users and internal stakeholders.
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