Adam Van Lente
Engineering Manager - Chemistry at Benchling
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Van Lente is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building software, teams, and high-growth companies, currently leading a 0-1 Chemistry product initiative at Benchling. He combines hands-on technical judgment with executive-level strategy—having scaled platforms and R&D organizations as CTO/VP at MikMak and stabilized foundational platform teams at Benchling to support enterprise and AI priorities. Adam excels at navigating ambiguity, converting early-stage technical decisions into scalable systems, and translating engineering tradeoffs into business value for boards and investors. He began honing his problem-solving mindset by automating and scaling a family-run e-commerce business in college, a throughline that shows up in his pragmatic focus on reducing KTLO and unlocking new ARR. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for mentoring engineers, instituting durable processes, and applying 0-1 frameworks inside scaled organizations to surface non-obvious opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Philosophy at Michigan State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
cart6
redirect6
demandware6
react5
frontend5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adamvanlente/ghit-app
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
tipoentertainment/mikmak-frontend-challenge
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Frontend challenge for engineering candidates at MikMak
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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