Ben Lavender is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in various technical roles. Currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe since September 2017, Ben played a pivotal role in establishing a new internal tools team in Dublin and became a top technical interviewer in 2019. Prior experience includes a Senior Engineer position at GitHub, where Ben developed popular chatops tools, and an early role at Liveset LLC as the first technical hire, responsible for all development needs. Additionally, Ben co-founded Dydra while managing operational tasks and developing the web front-end for a graph database service. Early career highlights include DevOps work at Openband, where Ben handled operations for intranet portals, numerous freelance web development projects, and a growth trajectory from Monitoring Technician to Network Engineer and Developer at Infinity Data Systems. Ben holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans.
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