Denver Developer
&& Song Builder
I'm an endlessly curious web developer, with a parallel career performing and operating a tech-forward music business. I am a graduate of McGill University and General Assembly, living in Denver, Colorado with my family.
I am currently employed by the Morehouse School of Medicine, proudly working on the open-source Health Equity Tracker, which was built by Google.org and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute.
I believe deeply in the power of music and technology to uplift our communities, so please reach out if I can help or answer any questions you may have. Let's build something together!
Currently:
Sr. Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Free-to-use data visualization platform enabling new insights into the impact of COVID-19 and other social and political determinants of health on historically underrepresented groups in the US; built collaboratively by Google.org and continuously expanded by the Satcher Health Leadership Institute
My web dev and software engineering online presence. Using Astro as a meta-framework for server side generated pages, with React function components. Dynamically pulls in my recent blog posts with GraphQL at build time, along with GitHub events rendered as emoji 💪.
Refactored my professional music site to incorporate modern web best-practices and allow seamless CI/CD with Netlify and GitHub; filterable song search for improved user experience.
Low-stakes place to experiment with visualizing the meta-data behind my other career as a professional musician. Configured multiple components using secure server page routes to authenticate access to Spotify API and answer the question "So what kind of music do you play?".
Can’t get away from Python even on my days off 🐍
git-wrapped.com/profiles/ben...
can I make a special invitation? I'm seeing a pattern in the applications that's pretty common: a heavy bias toward whit...
Current mood: Dad Max: Fury Road
Oh ya I played a gig recently! in front of this enormous Christmas tree 🎄
Reading History (Sep 2018 - Dec 2024)
Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey
Anne McCaffrey
Tara Westover
Ursula K. Le Guin