Ruby on Rails developer: Ben Scofield from United States, Durham, NC

Ben Scofield

Aliases	bscofield
Location	United States, Durham, NC

Company	Viget Labs, Northern Virginia

Ben is currently a senior software engineer at LivingSocial. He’s worked with Heroku as a developer advocate, and he’s built Ruby on Rails applications for Web 2.0 startup as the technology director at Viget Labs. He’s spoken at RailsConf, Rails to Italy, RailsConf Europe, RubyConf, and more over the past several years, and as of 2009 is program co-chair for RailsConf. In 2011, he joined Ruby Central as a director.

In 2007 and 2008, he won the solo division of the Rails Rumble (with Irksome, a web-based IRC client, and with Forever Home, a better way to find dogs needing adoption). In 2009, he served as an expert panelist and provided feedback on a large number of Rumble entries.

If you’d like to get in touch with him, feel free to email rails@turrean.com.

Homepage: http://benscofield.com/

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Authority

87.5%

Rails Core Contributor
Presented at a Rails related event
Attended a Rails related event
Has a Rails related book published
Has published a Ruby gem
Has published a Rails plugin
Works professionally with Rails

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98%

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Experience

Using Ruby for 7 years 4 months
Using Rails for 7 years 4 months

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Sites (1)

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Railsplugins (34)
Rubygems (58)

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