Ben Balter

@benbalter

Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.

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GeoJSON rendering improvements

Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…

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Jekyll Turns 1.0

GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…