My name is Dave Benjamin, and I’m a web developer, programmer, and musician living in Phoenix, Arizona with my lovely wife, Barb, and my two rascally kids. I work as a software engineer for the Trust & Safety department of Twitter. When I’m not writing code, I make beats on computer, keyboard, drum set, and a tiny bit of bass guitar, for my band, sp00. I also co-maintain the spoomusic.com net label, which provides an outlet for fellow experimental electronic musicians.

I am involved in several open source projects:

• xmlrpc-light, an XML-RPC library for OCaml
• itunesu-api-java, a Java client API for iTunes U web services
• pleac-ocaml, the free OCaml translation of the Perl Cookbook
• phply, a PHP parser written in Python using PLY

I grew up in Hayward and Castro Valley, California. I graduated from Castro Valley High School in 1997 and then moved to Arizona, where I got my BS in Computer Science from ASU. I’ve lived here ever since.