B Mankin
Founder at Rhymes.World
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolB Mankin is a founder and creative technologist in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building music-first products and performance brands. He launched Rhymes.World, a crowdsourced rhyming dictionary, and created Mr B's Rap App to help aspiring rappers sharpen their “flowcabulary,” blending product design with deep domain expertise in hip hop. A Belmont-trained songwriter and veteran frontman, he’s toured with major acts, logged millions of streams and over 150 live shows, and led a 7-piece live band across nine states. He combines lyrical craft and user-centered tooling, focusing on practical tools that lower the barrier to creative expression. Known for freestyling prowess and a playful, entrepreneurial streak, he brings artist-level intuition to product decisions. Based in LA, he’s building platforms that translate stage-honed instincts into scalable creative utilities.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Songwriting, Bachelor’s Degree, Songwriting at Belmont University
Github Skills (22)
visualization10
visualizer10
music10
music-visualizer10
vault8
gstreamer8
spark7
kafka7
api-gateway7
audio7
service-discovery7
data-access7
parquet7
consul6
etl6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hack-s/cda-client
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud Data Access client
Contributions:26 commits, 67 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
clouddata-accessdata-cloudaws
hack-s/gst-projectm
Apr 2024 - Sep 2025
This is a plugin for GStreamer that allows you to utilize the ProjectM library to create visualizations from audio.
Contributions:44 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
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