Ben Wilson
Chief Technology Officer at CargoSense, Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBen Wilson is a software engineer and CTO at CargoSense with 11 years of experience, based in Falls Church, Virginia. He’s an active author and speaker who concentrates on backend systems and the Elixir ecosystem, contributing to both language core and tooling. His open-source work spans performance optimizations in Elixir core (MapSet, Enum/Stream), integrating ExAws S3 storage for Hex, and hardening Absinthe GraphQL with schema, type-system, and test improvements. Ben blends systems-level optimization with practical production integrations—everything from object tagging and credential handling to build/packaging fixes—revealing a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and test coverage.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (35)
dependency-management10
wp-graphql10
amazons310
back-end-development10
elixir10
testing10
plug10
xml-schema10
amazon-s310
performance-optimization10
wordpress-graphql10
phoenix-framework10
absinthe10
phoenix-live-view10
aws-s310
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
absinthe-graphql/absinthe
Nov 2015 - Dec 2022
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 169 reviews, 591 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, implementing and testing features related to schema definition and execution. They focused on fixing bugs, adding test cases to improve test coverage, and improving the functionality of the core features, by standardizing code, correcting errors, and enhancing the quality of the tests. Their work centered on enhancing type system implementations, schema validation, and improving various aspects of the tool's internal workings.
servicesapirelayelixirgraphiql
absinthe-graphql/absinthe_plug
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Plug support for Absinthe, the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 222 commits, 140 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `absinthe_plug` repository, a GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, by implementing and testing features. Their work involved confirming and testing GraphQL document processing with various content types, like application/graphql, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and application/json. They also made changes related to hex package publication and updating Absinthe versions. Furthermore, the user contributed by adding tests for mutations and ensuring error checking within the GraphQL implementation.
elixirgraphiqlabsinthe-graphqlphoenixgraphql
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