Ben Williams

Hello, my name is Ben.

Here's some info about me:

Professional

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Interests

• Lowering barriers to creation and funding
• Tools for thought
• Playing and making music
• Writing world-class software
• Learning new things

Open Source Software

I maintain a small set of open-source software:

• gatsby-plugin-aphrodite: Provides drop-in support for Aphrodite in Gatsby.
• 17-vscode-theme: A dark blue theme for VS Code
• tiny-throttle: A throttle & debounce package in 329 bytes
• TypeTac: TypeScript library for Tachyons
• vscode-plv8: VS Code support for JavaScript syntax highlighting in PLV8 PostgreSQL code
• seal-store: Framework agnostic immutable state store

You can find all my public code on my Github @biw.

Previous Professional Experience

Most recently, I was a Product Engineer at Ideaflow, helping build the next generation of knowledge tools.

Before that, I was the co-founder of AuxParty, working on building an immersive 3D social music experience. We scaled the product to 50 countries worldwide with millions of songs listened to collectively and got a chance to put on events with over a dozen amazing artists/producers. We stopped working on it after hitting financial difficulties associated with music licensing.

I also previously performing code reviews and security audits for companies through PullRequest.

Before that, I worked as a product focused software engineer at:

• Shone working on autonomous technologies for container ships.
• Aero working on rethinking business travel (They have since pivoted)
• Masterclass working on growth & engineering tooling
• Microsoft as an Intern, working on Windows kernel security
• Tensentric as an Intern, working on medical device security

Contact me

🌻served from San Jose, California