Hi! Iโm Ben Borgers. Iโm a software engineer living in Boston. I work at Owner, and also contribute to Buttondown.
Iโd love to hear from you โ benborgers@hey.com.
Work Experience
- Buttondown (2021โโโpresent): 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 (2023โโโ2024): 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 (2021โโโ2025): 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 Tuftsโ meal plans, used by 1,300+ students.
- diffeqgrapher.com: Friendlier differential equations grapher for my dadโs 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).