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Welcome to the official GitHub profile of @benbalter

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About Ben

Ben Balter is the former Director of Hubber Enablement at GitHub, where he ensured all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. An attorney and open source advocate, he's spent over a decade at GitHub championing distributed collaboration, AI fluency, and open source philosophies — from the White House to the world's largest developer platform.

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