My name is Benjamin Pollack. I live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I work as a Principal Engineer at ngrok. Previously, I worked in both management and developer roles at The Knot Worldwide and three educational startups, including Khan Academy. Early in my career, I worked at Fog Creek Software (later Glitch), where I wrote the clients and backend services for the Copilot remote assistance software, and where I later co-founded an awesome DVCS hosting tool, Kiln, that has sadly since been sunset.

In my free time, I enjoy volunteer work (especially teaching), make music, write this blog, practice Japanese and Yiddish, work on my DeLorean, and occasionally spend time coding for fun, too—usually in Deno these days. Oh, and at one point in my life, I was in a movie, which is available on YouTube if you’re feeling overly nostalgic.

Feel free to drop me a line via my public inbox. You can also frequently find me as bmp on LiberaChat, and follow me on the Fediverse at @bmp@hachyderm.io.