Ben's a technology generalist who is very refined, respectful, and always professional. He goes by bhuga on every website that matters, and thinks that's a good enough idea that he's done it for years. Google that shit.

Work

Ben does programming, operations, and pretty much whatever nerdy needs doing. He likes moving product forward and hates being pigeonholed in one role.

Nerd signs

Ben wears his colors proudly.

• vim 4 L1F3.
• Ben helped create The Unlicense, a framework for releasing source code into the public domain.
• Mac on the desktop for now, but looking forward to Linuxing up when the Mac App Store makes his computer a toy.
• RSpec is awesomer than cucumbers, steaks, or just whatever.
• The first itch Ben scratched with programming was killing goblins when he was 14.
• Ben's post on Puppet vs Chef has been number two on Google for a while, and the CEOs of both companies posted on it. Puppet won, back then.

Play

Ben does Kung Fu and loves his little neighborhood, which is the quiet end of the French Quarter and the Marigny in New Orleans. He digs the free live music. When he leaves there, it's usually to go to the airport to revisit Germany or Austria, or somewhere else entirely. Ben bikes everywhere he can. Ben does not always watch sports, but when he does, Geaux Saints!

Talk to Ben

More contact methods than anyone should need are on the right, and you can find him as blavender inside the Google Intergalatic Cube's internal messaging system.

Hire Ben

TOO LATE!

Ben's CV is available if you'd like to read it, but he's not available for work just now. Sorry!