Beau Lebens

Current

• Code Wrangler at Automattic
• Co-Founder & CTO at MyBabyOurBaby.com
• Owner at Dented Reality

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Industry

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Beau Lebens’s Summary

Having come all the way from Australia, I'm here in San Francisco so that I can be at the heart of the things I truly love. I'm passionate about building systems to solve problems, and making people's lives better. I've been involved in every aspect from planning and mapping out the development schedule of systems to configuring and deploying the hardware and networks to run it all. My specialty and personal preference is being involved hands-on in developing systems to scale and deal with massive volume and load.

Beau Lebens’s Specialties:

Small group management, infrastructure/operations management, PHP development, MySQL development/management, WordPress development/customization, complex web systems, blogging and social-media related technology, anything RSS/Atom related - all that good web stuff!

Beau Lebens’s Experience

• Code Wrangler

  Automattic

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Co-Founder & CTO

  MyBabyOurBaby.com

  (Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Creating an online scrapbooking/community site targeted at parents and family. Based entirely on WordPressMU and bbPress (integrated and massively customized through plugins/additional functionality). Storage hosted on Amazon S3, with extensive use of AJAX in the UI via jQuery and Prototype/Scriptaculous. Careful use of PHP/MySQL, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript in a cross-browser environment. Source control and a build/deploy process were built and used throughout.

• Owner

  Dented Reality

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  February 1997 — Present (12 years 10 months)

  My private-consulting business name used for providing boutique Internet development services. Generally, I focus around search marketing and social software/web 2.0/community-based systems.
  
  http://www.dentedreality.com.au/