Ben Hamment
Chief Technology Officer at Inn Style
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBen Hamment is a technology leader and CTO with ten years of hands-on experience delivering scalable full-stack web applications, primarily in Ruby and PHP. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Inn Style and previously led engineering at Staylists, guiding product-focused teams to build hospitality and travel experiences. His background spans DevOps, systems administration, TDD, CI, Linux, and front-end stacks, enabling end-to-end delivery from databases to UI. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened the Ruby tooling in the Zed code editor—from Ruby grammar and method visibility to file finder improvements and parameter recognition—demonstrating a knack for language tooling and performance. Based in Norwich, UK, his career also includes self-employment and roles at Archant Dialogue, Brew Digital, Selesti, and Further/DevOps, reflecting a pragmatic, cost-conscious approach to building robust software. He combines technical depth with creative problem-solving, turning complex requirements into practical, maintainable systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (6)
rust10
text-editor10
syntax-highlighting10
text-editors10
ruby10
gpu9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zed-industries/zed
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Zed code editor's features and language support, focusing on Ruby. They improved the file finder by addressing space handling and added Ruby method visibility to the outline view. Furthermore, the user made several significant improvements to the Ruby grammar, recognizing method parameters and superclasses, and also improved the Ruby syntax generally. The user's commits also include the addition of traits in Rust highlights.
gpuirust-langtext-editorzed
dracula/zed
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
🧛🏻♂️ Dark theme for Zed
Contributions:22 PRs, 40 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
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