Benj is a full-stack software and data engineer passionate about scalable design patterns and collaborative teamwork.
Throughout his career Benj has led teams and shipped software to production with organizations of various sizes and industries: Marketplacer, Dashlabs.ai (YC W21), Shopee, Public Grid, and others.
You also might catch him working on another open-source browser extension or command line tool. He lives in the terminal and has spent an embarrassing amount of time fixing his neovim config.
Off the clock you can find him brewing himself filter coffee, agonizing over chess & word puzzles, zipping around google maps for new places to pin, and training for his next triathlon.
I really enjoyed [Benj's] management style ... he was very attentive to the type of work he assigned to members of the team and tried his best to ensure that tasks were challenging but fulfilling ... he gave us autonomy and let us handle our own projects, which helped keep the team engaged.
Overall I believe his guidance and mentorship pushed me into becoming more curious and capable as a software engineer. He has been a great example of what to expect from future engineering managers.
— Erin, former colleague at Dashlabs.ai
2023 - present
Developing features using NextJS and Ruby on Rails, expanding the Marketplacer e-commerce platform’s capabilities and improving the user experience for operators & sellers. Contributes to internal tools such as Slack bots and design system components in Storybook to boost developer productivity.
2021 - 2023
Team lead and full stack engineer for e-commerce, point of sale, booking, and billing systems integrated with the core platform (patient & diagnostic services) built on Next.js, Express, GraphQL, and MongoDB.
2023
Built ETL workflows and REST APIs with SST (AWS Lambda) for ingesting time series data from third party providers to a Postgres database.
2021
Built web apps and tools for the company and its clients with React, Node, and GraphQL. Worked with a multinational team of engineers and managers from the USA, Russia, India, Portugal, the UK, and others.
2019 - 2021
Built automation tools for process improvement and data analytics using Python, SQL, Google Cloud, and Excel. Led the team on the planning, fulfillment, and maintenance of projects to keep up with rapidly changing business needs. Created and maintained several business-critical management reports.