Ben Wills
Founder CEO Engineer OppAlerts.com
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Wills is a founder, CEO, and engineer who blends decades of marketing technology with hands-on software craftsmanship. Since 2001 he built expertise in SEO and digital marketing before shifting into engineering in 2012, and today he creates data-driven solutions for marketers at OppAlerts, including large-scale data download, parsing, indexing, and a subscription monitoring platform. His work spans low-level embedded systems, high-performance web scrapers in C/C++, and distributed databases and search engines, reflecting a rare comfort with both systems and UI. Earlier in his career he led operations and strategy at Fortune Interactive and directed search marketing services at WebSourced/KeywordRanking.com/MarketSmart Interactive, driving growth and high client renewal rates, while also founding Ontolo to pioneer link-prospecting. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a keen interest in C, parsing large unstructured data, efficiency, and hash functions, turning complex data into actionable marketing insights.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
Github Skills (95)
search-api10
cpp10
search-server10
api10
database10
json10
php-extension10
full-text-search10
sphinxsearch10
sublime-text9
pgsql9
sql9
elk9
high-performance9
sublime-text-39
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benwills/proposal-warc-to-zstandard
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
benwills/CustHash
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:68 pushes in 5 months
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