Ben Bernard, a Principal Engineer at Gremlin, is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for solving user problems and learning new technology. His educational background includes studying Math with Computer Science at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Oklahoma. With vast experience in service and API design, Ben has worked for top-notch technology companies such as Amazon.com, Google, and Groupon, among others. He is proficient in several computer languages, including JavaScript, Ruby, Python, ObjectiveC, Perl, Java, Smalltalk, Ruby, and C++.

Ben is highly interested in diversity issues in tech and strongly believes that everyone in the tech industry should fight for better representation of minorities and women. He is also highly skilled at leading a team and getting things done quickly. His most significant joy comes from developing or fixing code quickly with a visible impact on users.

Ben's experience with various tools and technology stacks is vast, including Apache, UNIX, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Tomcat, Axis, ActiveMQ, CSS, XML, XPath, Make, gcc, ant, command-line data analysis tools (sed, awk, grep, wc, com), Node, Backbone, Mongoose, Mongo, Django, Spitfire, RubyOnRails, Express, S3, AWS Tools, EC2, RightScale, Heroku, git, React, Postgres, GraphQL, XCode, and some Spring Boot. You can find out more about Ben's work by checking out his command-line data analysis project on GitHub (https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream/).