Ben Richards
IT Manager at ActiveCampaign
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Richards is an IT manager with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining virtualized and multi-data-center environments, now leading IT at ActiveCampaign after senior management tenure at Snapsheet. He combines deep expertise in VMware, OpenStack, containers, AWS and Windows Server with practical networking and telecom skills (Cisco, Avaya, PBX) to deliver cost-effective, compliant infrastructure for finance and enterprise clients. Known for rapid learning and calm execution under pressure, he has led migrations, security remediation, and large-scale VMware deployments while owning backup and retention strategies. A pragmatic problem-solver who rose quickly through technical support by handling heavy ticket volumes, he also contributes to open-source projects improving graphics rendering and documentation in browser game frameworks, showing attention to detail across both ops and code.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at College of Lake CountyPolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
html8
geometry7
webgl6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gamelab/kiwi.js
Sep 2014 - Aug 2019
Kiwi.js is a blazingly fast mobile & desktop browser based HTML5 game framework. It uses CocoonJS for publishing to the AppStore.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 3 PRs, 117 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on fixing minor documentation typos and improving code comments within the Kiwi.js game framework. Their changes included updates to the source code, specifically related to geometry matrix transformations, GL array buffers, and texture atlas rendering. They also contributed to the rendering of texture atlases, adding details and clarifying existing implementation details.
mobile
gamelab/Primitives-Plugin
Oct 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
geometricprimitives
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