Ben Ellis

Software Engineer at On-Site.com
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Rome, Latium, Italy, IT
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Fabio Cicerchia

Ben was my team leader for a year. Working with him was very instructive, the team worked in tranquility and there was maximum opportunity to experiment. I hope to work with him in the future.

Francesco Contini

I've worked for 5 years togheter with Ben, and it was the most interesting and good experience i've done. He's foculized on the problems and help me a lot of time to find the best solution!.

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Credentials

  • Confluent Fundamentals Accreditation
    Confluent
    Jun, 2022
    - Sep, 2024
  • Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
    Confluent
    Jul, 2022
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

  • On-Site.com
    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Sep 2010 - Present

      Ruby on Rails, JRuby, JSP, DB2 Ruby on Rails, JRuby, JSP, DB2

  • (freelance)
    • Egypt
    • Human Resources
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Freelance Consultant
      • Jan 2010 - Oct 2010

      Developed a Map-based social web application (dripplet.com) using Ruby on Rails. Produced markup, automated accessibility tests, and Oracle Web Portal compatible CSS themes (inail.it) using Ruby (HAML, SASS, Cucumber). Ported an Italian book catalog from PHP to Ruby on Rails (galileoalby.com) and added a version of the site optimized for the iphone (IUI library). Developed a Map-based social web application (dripplet.com) using Ruby on Rails. Produced markup, automated accessibility tests, and Oracle Web Portal compatible CSS themes (inail.it) using Ruby (HAML, SASS, Cucumber). Ported an Italian book catalog from PHP to Ruby on Rails (galileoalby.com) and added a version of the site optimized for the iphone (IUI library).

  • Excite Italia
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Applications Manager
      • 2001 - 2009

      I managed the software engineers for Excite Italia and doubled as an engineer myself. While liaising with larger companies (Tiscali, Ask UK, Ask.com) I helped the company’s engineering keep lean and flexible as business objectives shifted from growth to innovation to integration. I also kept an active hand in the programming of all aspects, from backend (DB design, query tuning and analysis, stored procedures) to middleware (XML-RPC, SOAP, REST) to frontend (PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS). I worked with a wide range of other groups: systems, design, marketing, business development, editorial content and product, translating their needs into engineering requirements and likewise rendering the engineering group’s technical issues and opportunities accessible to non-technical groups. As Excite Italia acquired the rights to the remaining Excite Europe properties, I managed the development and integration of sites in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Polish. Show less

  • Excite@Home (seconded employee at Excite Italia)
    • Senior Engineer
      • May 1999 - 2001

      I was one of two Americans sent to launch the Excite Italia startup. I helped import and apply technologies developed in Redwood City, California to the emerging market for web portals in Rome, Italy. I designed and developed the content production infrastructure, the use of source control (CVS), channel structure, community products, the development environment, release and rollback procedures, feed handlers, personalization, registration, and search results pages. I was responsible for the internationalization and localization of Excite@Home web applications as well as the development of new applications specifically for Excite Italia. I developed the frontend for what was at that time the first and only online personals service in Italy (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.excite.it/annunci). Show less

  • Excite@Home
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • Junior Engineer -> Senior Engineer
      • Dec 1997 - May 1999
  • Green Room Productions
    • United Kingdom
    • Assistant Engineer
      • 1996 - 1997

Education

  • SDA Bocconi
    Project Management
    2004 - 2004
  • University of Washington
    M.A., Philosophy
    1994 - 1996
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
    B.A., Philosophy
    1991 - 1993

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