Hey all,
I'm Ben, head of the product team at DreamFactory.
I'm originally from Virginia, but have lived in San Francisco for the last twenty years. I love building software and started programming games for fun in the 5th grade. After studying industrial engineering, I began my career in the Bay Area working on supply chain optimization for big pharma clients (lots of Monte Carlo simulations on terabyte sized databases when that was considered "big data"!). I then moved into product management for a number of enterprise software startups and did a two year stint in Hong Kong for a finance software company partnered with the World Bank. I joined DreamFactory in 2006 as product lead for our Salesforce products before moving to the DreamFactory open source project.
Outside of work I'm usually outside. I enjoy surfing out at Ocean Beach in SF, camping, fishing, and foraging for morels up in the Sierras. I enjoy traveling too, so many places to see! I love exploring new technologies, particularly APIs for everything (so much more to do!), IoT, bitcoin, blockchain, machine learning, quantum computing, and cryptography.
I'm super excited to see the DreamFactory community grow and learn how folks are using DreamFactory to build great stuff! I'm on Twitter, get in touch anytime!