Ben Kuhl
Software Engineer at Help Scout
Louisville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kuhl is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building web-focused systems, currently contributing to Help Scout from the Louisville metro area. He has progressed through roles from lead developer to Developer IV and now delivers production software at a mature SaaS company, bringing strong practical knowledge of backend and developer workflows. A self-taught web developer, Ben pairs hands-on coding with clear technical communication — evidenced by documentation contributions to the widely used phpDocumentor project where he clarified command options and visibility flags. He’s comfortable working across teams to turn ambiguous requirements into maintainable solutions and has a track record of improving developer experience through better docs and tooling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
none, Web Development, none, Web Development at Self Taught
Stackoverflow
61,254reputation
11.0mreached
200answers
802questions
mysql
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sql
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webserver
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documentation
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java
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doctrine-orm
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Github Skills (25)
rs10
apache10
php10
angularjs10
webserver10
docblocks10
documentation10
mysql9
google-analytics9
jersey9
ssl9
java9
symfony9
rest9
sql9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Documentation Generator for PHP
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions focused primarily on enhancing the documentation for the phpDocumentor project. They added detailed documentation for the `project:run` command, including its various parameters and options. Furthermore, the user updated and corrected existing documentation regarding the `--visibility` and `--parseprivate` parameters, ensuring accurate and comprehensive information for users. They also added parameter descriptions to some commands.
documentation-generatorphpphpdocumentorgraphvizdocblocks
realpage/laravel-starter
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:77 PRs, 136 pushes, 98 branches in 2 years 2 months
laravelphplaravel-appjumpstart
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