Ben was the third employee at npm, Inc, where he became involved with open-source and the Node.js community. Ben maintains the open source library yargs, is a collaborator on Node.js, and contributes to other projects, such as v8. Ben currently works on the client libraries team at Google, helping to develop best practices for managing open-source projects across over 150 APIs and services. Ben loves mentoring and speaking. He has spoken at conferences such as Node+JS Interactive, JS.LA, Toronto JS, and OPO.js.