Work hard, achieve excellence at something, create value for others, team up with like-minded people, enjoy the process, repeat.

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My Blog on Postach.io

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@benjaminsull

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Check me out on github

I'm a proponent of best practices for crafting quality, maintainable software, including: DRY, OOP, TDD / BDD, refactoring, clean code.

I've contributed to some popular open-source projects including Ruby on Rails, and open-sourced several of my own:

• Bently - Homebrew meets Rails generators
• Twitter Bootstrap Snippets for Vim

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I have experience developing on high-traffic web services, including:

• kumapon.jp

I'm always interested in mixing up my toolbox, but most familiar with:

• Ruby, Rails
• varnish, memcached, redis, MySQL
• HTML (Haml), CSS (Sass), JavaScript (CoffeeScript)
• zsh, tmux, Vim

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People need people! Below are some local communities I've been an integral part of.

Lean Startup Machine, Tokyo

(a founding organizer) Lean Startup Machine is a competitive three-day workshop where you will learn how to apply Lean Startup methods in the real world.

Tokyo Lean Startup Circle

(founding organizer) A lean startup in its own right. We hold a bi-weekly Bootstrap Lunch. The "frequent meetups in small batches" format is a perfect example of an MVP limitation turned success.

Tokyo Rails Meetup

(original founder) Tokyo On Rails was the first active Meetup community for Rails developers in Tokyo. Credit to @tapster for taking over and making Tokyo Rails one of the most popular meetups in Tokyo.

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I've been practicing the cultivation and art of bonsai formally in Japan for over 4 years. Have a look at my trees on Trello:

My Bonsai Trees