Ben currently works at LeadTune where he gets to work with cool machine learning algorithms and do polyglot programming. :) (Mostly Clojure for the ML and "heavy lifting", Ruby for the web applications and server configuration, and a smattering of R for ad hoc analysis.)
He earned his Bachelors and Master degrees in Computer Science (with an emphasis in graphics) from the University of Utah. He is part of the core Cucumber team trying to keep BDD fun. The areas of machine learning, software gardening, and programming languages usually keep him busy. While on IRC he is known as 'mabes'.
In his "real" life he enjoys running and other outdoor activities.