Hi! I’m Ben Borgers. I’m a software engineer living in Boston. I work at Owner, and also contribute to Buttondown.

I’d love to hear from you — benborgers@hey.com.

Work Experience

• Buttondown (2021 – present): Product engineer and support engineer.
• Notion (summer 2024): Built and shipped a new version of the callout block to the editor and public API.
• Locket (2023 – 2024): Shipped usernames, chat, and other features to millions of active users on Android.
• Luma and Glow (summer 2022)
• IBM (summer 2019 + 2020)

Education

• Tufts University (2021 – 2025): B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Psychology, minor in German.

Projects

• JumboSmash: Dating app for Tufts seniors.
• TikTok Graveyard, IG Valentine, and Locket Yearbook: Viral marketing for Locket.
• GovDiff: Government websites before and after Trump.
• Speakology: AI speaking partner for language learning.
• Govcentives: Whitelabeled search engines for energy providers.
• Tufts Meal Plan Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for Tufts’ meal plans, used by 1,300+ students.
• diffeqgrapher.com: Friendlier differential equations grapher for my dad’s classes.
• Kiwi: Live Q&A platform for university classes; built for University of Michigan research study and used by 2,000+ students.
• War Room: Social to-do list app.
• Bagel Institute: Teaching tools for university classes, built for my dad.
• opensheet: Open-source Google Sheets API that receives over 200 million requests/month.
• emojicdn: CDN for PNG images of emojis that gets millions of requests/month.
• Blocks: Schedule app for my high school that was used by 2,100 students and teachers (87% of the school).