Hi, I'm Ben — a software engineer based in the Birmingham, Alabama area. I build web and mobile apps for a living, and a lot more of them for fun.
Outside of code I'm a Christian, a husband, and a dad of three. Family and faith come first; everything below is what I do with the time after that.
What I work on
Day-to-day I build software at VESYL, a shipping platform that helps e-commerce companies automate fulfillment and get orders out the door faster. I spend most of my time on the order-management and warehouse-workflow side: pulling orders in from Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and every storefront in between (each with its own shape and quirks), normalizing them into something a picker can actually act on, and driving the state machine that takes an order from "received" to "on the truck" without anyone in the warehouse losing track of where it is.
The fun is in the seams — automation rules, batch operations across thousands of orders, keeping inventory honest across channels, and making the screen a warehouse operator stares at all day feel obvious instead of overwhelming.
Before that I've spent the last decade-plus shipping Ruby on Rails apps, GraphQL APIs, and React frontends across a few startups and a couple of teams I've helped build from scratch.
Side projects
Most evenings I'm tinkering with something. Lately that's been iOS apps — see the apps page for the two I'm shipping right now (Imposter, a pass-and-play party game; and BatteryScope, a Bluetooth BMS monitor for lithium batteries). I also keep a small drawer of CLIs and dev tools open on GitHub.
How I work
I started as a Ruby developer and I still love Ruby for getting an idea into production quickly. But I treat language and framework choice as a tool problem, not an identity: Swift for native iOS, TypeScript for web frontends, Rust and Go for the small tools where a single static binary is the right answer, and whatever the team is already using when I join an existing codebase.
Find me
- Email ben.wyrosdick@gmail.com
- GitHub @benwyrosdick
- X / Twitter @benwyrosdick
- LinkedIn bwyrosdick