Ben Kulbertis - Full Stack Web Developer and Technology Enthusiast

Hey! I'm Ben.

I'm a young web developer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm currently interesting in writing web applications using

and

. Ember Data is frickin' sweet. I'm still a big fan of

though

are great and let me write less of it. SASS, LESS, and (currently my favorite preprocessor)

make writing quality CSS fun and easy. I also love Linux and System Administration. I run

on my personal machines and just about any server as well. It's mostly because PPAs are incredibly convenient and Ubuntu is pretty darn stable. Arch and AUR are nice as well, but more bleeding edge. Some of the server technologies I'm familiar with are the

and

web servers, the

and

databases,

and

, just to name a few I like. I love scripting in Bash for simple tasks and automation but I use

in the console wherever I can because it's awesome. Zsh has integration capabilities for

, which is really useful for keeping track of which branch you're on and whether or not the branch is clean without running commands. Virtual Machines are really important to me. I love having access to any software I need at any time as well as the ability to snapshot and revert entire environments.

is some amazing open source software, especially with

for development. Follow me on

to get to know me personally!