About
My name is Ben Packer and I am a Brooklyn based software engineer and socialist passionate about the upcoming PostgreSQL release and surviving the 21st century.
In 2019, I was a co-founder of [[Things I’ve Tried|Rewired Coop]], a technology coop building software for organizers with roots in the Bernie 2020 campaign and the Democratic Socialist left.
In 2024, I began my current role working on the technology for communications and organizing systems for the United Auto Workers.
Where to find me online
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bean_pooker)
* [Github](https://github.com/ben-pr-p)
* This website
Contact
You can email me at [email protected]. I am not important, famous, or terribly busy, and I do a good job at unsubscribing to things, so receiving an email is quite exciting!
You should email me if:
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You want to go to a Ninja Gym in Brooklyn and play around in the ball pits and stuff.
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You would like to co-organize a group industrial tourism trip. We can visit all the types of power plants, mines, small & large farms/fisheries, water and waste treatment, recycling & trash, data centers, ports, logging, etc. It would be a lot of planning but I think a good time!
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You are about to enter the labor market as a software engineer and want to ask what else I might know that you could do other than traditional tech roles.
Billie
I have a lab/pitt+ mutt named Billie. I usually am not too interested in photos of other people’s dogs, but you can find photos of her