Ben is a member of Google's Open Source Program Office, working on projects to promote the spread of open source software both inside and outside the company. He is a technical lead for Google Code's open source project hosting service, and helped port Subversion to Google's Bigtable technology, which now runs across numerous machines and serves over 160,000 open source repositories. Prior to Google, Ben spent five years with Collabnet as one of the original designers and founders of the Subversion project. He is still active in the Subversion community and is also a co-author of the O'Reilly book "Version Control with Subversion". He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, composes musical theater, and enjoys playing bluegrass banjo.
Version Control with Subversion, Second Edition, Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, C. Michael Pilato, 2008, pp. 430.
The Subversion Version Control System, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato, Linux in a Nutshell, 2005, pp. 839-887.
The Subversion Version Control System, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato, Unix in a Nutshell, 2005, pp. 697-744.
Version Control with Subversion, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato, 2004, pp. 320.