Benjamin Young Email & Phone Number

Greenville, SC, US

Blacksburg, VA, US

Building out the developer experience around W3C Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as well as CHAPI, the Credential Handler API. Enabling developers to issue, verify, and store Verifiable Credentials across the Web.

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Working on UI/UX, marketing, and the occasional Erlang tweak.

Wakefield, MA, US

Continuing to support the JSON-LD community in its growth, standardization, and wider use.

Mike Amundsen and I organize the REST Fest Unconference which premiered September 17-18, 2010. REST Fest is focused on the REST Web Architectural style and bringing it to the people.

After 7 years, BigBlueHat merged it's business investments with Exact Solutions to form Exactly, Inc. The new combined company sports a broader tech portfolio and larger team. Exactly, Inc. continues to improve the BlueInk CMS and grow the web hosting and development offerings started at BigBlueHat.

US

User Interface and Experience developer, REST API architect, alternative database researcher

Hoboken, NJ, US

Digital Publishing, Annotation, and Web specifications advocate and liaison.

Wakefield, MA, US

Contributed to various conversations, code, and open Web standards such as Activity Streams 2.0, ActivityPub, and Linked Data Notifications as an active participant in the W3C's Social Web Working Group.It has been excellent to see ActivityPub become the foundation of the "fediverse" powering Mastodon, PeerTube, and many others.

Wakefield, MA, US

Core participant in the Web Annotation Working Group throughout it's history. I enjoyed the opportunity to be a contributing Editor to the Web Annotation Data Model and Web Annotation Vocabulary specifications, and be a core contributor to the Web Annotation testing framework to validate compliance Web Annotation Data Model and Protocol (HTTP API).

Wakefield, MA, US

Invited Expert in the Web Annotation Working Group & Digital Publishing Interest Group at the W3C. Serving as Co-editor on the Web Annotation Data Model.

Toronto, Other..., CA

Wrote Web API related news about REST, Hypermedia, JSON, NLP, IoT, that Cloud thing, and a host of other HTTP (or similar) things.http://www.infoq.com/author/Benjamin-Young

San Francisco, CA, US

Brought Hypothes.is to Developers and Developers to Hypothes.is through collaborative development of open source Open Annotation technologies for the good of the Web (and everyone who uses it). Comments welcome.During my time here I worked directly with the W3C's Annotation Working Group and joined the list of editors on the Web Annotation Data Model.

Speaking, hand waving, coding, and writing about the Cloudant Data Layer as a Service NoSQL database in the Cloud based on Apache CouchDB.

Greenville, US

Building the international social network for Big Ideas from lovely Greenville, SC.

Santa Clara, California, US

User Experience Engineer specializing in cushion and seat cover design for Apache CouchDB and bucket juggling for Membase.

Greer, SC, US

Turned a small freelance gig into a multi-person company with a downtown office and an international client base. Created the BlueInk CMS, contributed to the open source dotProject project management system, and built various custom applications for clients.

Code contributor, add-on developer, forum and mailing list contributor

Gave a Lightning Talk and led a Breakout Session on "Why CouchDB?" at this event for library technologists.

Collaborate with other organizers to plan and develop the Upstate Entrepreneurs Forum's meetings and ventures in the Greenville/Upstate South Carolina area.

Greenville, SC, US

Worked as the chief information architect for the Web Technologies department at Bob Jones University. Worked with a small team to create and manage the bju.edu web site.

Greenville, SC, US

Built an itinerary tracking database for the university President and other speakers traveling to promote the university.