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Ben Balter is the Director of Hubber Enablement within the Office of the COO at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform, ensuring all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. Previously, he served as the Director of Technical Business Operations, and as Chief of Staff for Security, he managed the office of the Chief Security Officer, improving overall business effectiveness of the Security organization through portfolio management, strategy, planning, culture, and values. 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.

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Current Job

Director of Hubber Enablement
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GitHub

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
6contributions
high5
medium1
score16
Last 90 days
27contributions
high21
medium6
score69
Last 12 months
37contributions
high31
medium6
score99

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 3.4
  • 3.3
  • 3.2

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 22 Mon · 19:43
Plugins high
Committed [3582316] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 5.1.2 from GitHub
Jun 20 Sat · 14:18
Plugins high
Committed [3579852] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 5.1.1 from GitHub
Jun 19 Fri · 16:37
Plugins high
Committed [3578966] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
Jun 19 Fri · 15:46
Plugins high
Committed [3578907] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
Jun 19 Fri · 15:01
Forums med
Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear. Thanks for confirming.
Jun 16 Tue · 01:44
Plugins high
Committed [3573855] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 5.1.0 from GitHub
Jun 04 Thu · 21:24
Forums med
Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@valicesupport — thanks for the detailed testing. There are actually two separate issues being discussed…
May 2026
May 28 Thu · 00:06
Forums med
Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@valicesupport Are you able to try https://github.com/wp-document-revisions/wp-document-revisions/pull/534? That should fix it. If not, I can…
May 24 Sun · 22:43
Plugins high
Committed [3546706] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 5.0.0 from GitHub
May 13 Wed · 23:32
Plugins high
Committed [3531443] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 4.0.7 from GitHub

Developer

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