Ben Hoskings

Ben embarked on a degree in Engineering, but inadvertently derailed his academic career by becoming a programmer. He cut his teeth on C, writing a music player to learn about audio codecs, threading and unix, before moving to the web and discovering ruby. He has since become a regular contributor to the open source community. Ben is the author of babushka, a tool for writing and sharing recipes to automate computing chores, and knows his way around git, on which he runs workshops around Australia.