Ariel Bong
Founding Engineer at Benny
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Bong is a Founding Engineer with eight years of hands-on software experience and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, blending controls and automation instincts with full-stack product work. He helped scale payments infrastructure at Plaid before joining Benny to build early-stage systems, bringing a pragmatic, get-things-done approach to product engineering. Comfortable in both hardware-adjacent projects and cloud software, Ariel has built everything from Arduino-controlled automation to large web crawlers and data pipelines. He pairs technical depth with operational discipline—managing multi-hundred-thousand-dollar event budgets in student organizations speaks to his programmatic planning and stakeholder management. Driven by social impact, he focuses on technologies that enhance human experience through smarter control systems and automation. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who learns quickly on the job and prefers shipping working solutions over theoretical perfection.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
McCallieBachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (2)
to-do5
youtube3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
70869/Project-U-
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
*coming soon* Project U is a 3rd/1rst Person MMOFPS game with lots of this to do and adds an element from your favorite FPS games I will be taking feedback or idea that I can implement into the game. you could also visit my youtube for development changes in the future.
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
fpsgamecoming-soongamesperson
70869/wiredinsite
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
GRIND (co programing is something else)
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 month
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