Hey y'all, I'm Ben! 👋🏾
I am a Jesus follower (aka a Christian) living in Houston, Texas with my wife Rashida and our 3 children Simone, Avery and Asher. I was born and raised in the great city of Houston, Texas (go Rockets).
In addition to my handful of open source projects, I love teaching others to help them grow. I've given 150+ talks and workshops that have helped thousands all over the world level up their JavaScript, React, and overall frontend skills. I'm also a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.
From the time I built my first website in 1998, I've been super passionate about the Web. I graduated from Stanford University and received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science with concentrations in Human-Computer Interaction (the closest I could get to web development back then).
Currently, I'm particularly passionate about Generative AI, both in Production and for Developer Productivity. But I also spend a lot of time working on frontend DivOps (aka Babel, Webpack, ESLint, packaging libraries, CI, etc).
I joined Netflix in February 2024 on the TVUI Foundations team, focusing on improving the developer productivity in local development and CI for building the Netflix TV application. I also get to dabble in some Generative AI work as well.
I've also worked for Stitch Fix (4.5 years), Eventbrite (4.5 years), Zazzle (9 years), Yahoo (summer), Amazon (summer), Microsoft (summer), Rice University (summer), and Stanford (various times).
My complete resume is available on LinkedIn. Follow me on Twitter at @benmvp. Check out my open source work on Github and side projects. Track my speaking engagements and watch my speaking videos. Subscribe to the BenMVP Newsletter. Lastly, ask me anything!