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

Iโ€™d love to hear from you โ€” benborgers@hey.com.

Work Experience

  • Buttondown (2021โ€‰โ€“โ€‰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 (2023โ€‰โ€“โ€‰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 (2021โ€‰โ€“โ€‰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 Tuftsโ€™ meal plans, used by 1,300+ students.
  • diffeqgrapher.com: Friendlier differential equations grapher for my dadโ€™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).