Ben Ramsey

@ramsey
Staff Engineer, Skillshare; PHP 8.1 Release Manager
Nashville, TN
He/Him

Open Source Maintainer

PHP

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PhpStorm

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Coder, writer, speaker. PHP 8.1 release manager. Open source, PHP, board games, D&D, 🖖, 👨‍💻, 🛰, 🎸, 🍺, & 👨‍👩‍👦. He/him

I'm open to

open source contributions,

speaking on podcasts,

volunteering,

making introductions,

and talking to journalists.

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Resume

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Apr 2021 - Present

PHP 8.1 Release Manager, PHP

Nov 2019 - Present

Staff Engineer , Skillshare

Jul 2014 - Oct 2019

Software Architect, ShootProof

Mar 2013 - Jun 2014

Senior Software Architect, Moontoast

Portfolio

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I joined Matt and Ben on PHP Town Hall to discuss PHP release management, among other things.

Joined Polywork and began filling out my profile and getting the lay of the land.

The lock-down begins

Excited to join Skillshare as Staff Engineer! 🎉

Presentations

Presented Cool Tools for PHP Development to the Essex Web Developer Meetup.

I presented "Cool Tools for PHP Development" to four different user groups this month. The slides aren't much, since most of the talk was a live coding session, but they're chock-full of links at t...

Open Source

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I've released version 4.2.0 of ramsey/uuid, which is primarily a maintenance release, with a few bug fixes and a new base exception interface, implemented by all the library's interfaces, for easie...

I'm very excited to announce that the second beta of PHP 8.1.0 is now available! Check out the announcement.

Released the first beta of PHP 8.1.0! Check out the announcement.

I released PHP Library Starter Kit version 3.0 today! I'm really proud of this. I hope it empowers you to start making cool PHP libraries and tools. To get started with it, enter the following: com...