Ben Applegate
Director, Publishing Services at Penguin Random House
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Applegate is Director of Publishing Services at Penguin Random House, leading editorial teams that localize and publish Kodansha USA’s bestselling manga and graphic novels. With nine years in leadership and over a decade working directly on flagship titles like Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, and A Silent Voice, he blends deep editorial craft with product innovation—having developed unique formats like the Colossal Edition. He pairs fluency in Japanese language and culture with hands-on experience in translation, crowdfunding, and tour curation, giving him unusual cross-cultural product instincts. Known for turning complex localization challenges into commercially successful editions, he also maintains a playful affinity for “programming at its weirdest,” signaling curiosity beyond publishing. Based in New Jersey, he’s a pragmatic storyteller and manager who helps teams make books people want to read.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, International Studies, BA, Political Science, International Studies at Northwestern University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
23reputation
152reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (45)
editor9
dsl9
electron9
javascript9
webworker9
visual-studio-code9
typescript9
nwjs9
dom9
nodejs9
esoteric-programming-language9
node-webkit8
redux8
programming-language8
discord8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Camto/Boost-Jumper
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 85 commits, 52 pushes in 20 days
Camto/calc
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
calc= is a small concatenative programming language for doing math in chats.
Contributions:2 releases, 425 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
programming-languagedslprogramming-languages
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