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

Marketplacer
Software Engineer

2023 - present

Technical lead for several initiatives that allow e-commerce marketplace operators finer control over managing product listings via multiple channels (UI, GraphQL API, spreadsheet import/export).

Dashlabs (YC W21)
Senior Director of Software Engineering

2021 - 2023

Engineering team lead for e-commerce, point-of-sale, billing, and booking systems integrated with the core diagnostic services platform (Next.js, Express, GraphQL, MongoDB).

Public Grid (formerly Cottage)
Software Engineer

2023

Built ETL workflows and REST APIs with SST (AWS Lambda) for ingesting time series data from third party providers to a Postgres database.

Silicon Valley Insight
Software Engineer

2021

Built client-facing and internal web apps and tools (React, NodeJS, GraphQL) and authored technical docs covering client app integrations, infrastructure, and developer workflows.

Shopee
Business Technologies Team Lead

2019 - 2021

Analytics engineer & team lead in charge of developing & delivering critical management reports and data pipelines with in-house automation tools (Python/Pandas, PrestoDB, GCP, Excel).