Ben Awad
Co-Founder at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBen Awad is a San Francisco–based full-stack engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing apps and games, currently leading product and engineering at Voidpet. He blends hands-on implementation—from React/TypeScript frontends and Apollo GraphQL clients to Express backends and PostgreSQL ORMs—with a creator’s instinct honed as a long-running YouTuber covering programming and startups. His open-source contributions span practical developer tools and social apps (e.g., VSinder for VSCode, Dogehouse voice rooms, and a GraphQL Airbnb clone), showing a pattern of shipping end-to-end features like auth, room management, and data consistency fixes. Earlier roles at Bank of America and quant firms demonstrate experience operationalizing ML and automation at scale, including improving an AI chatbot used by millions. Notably, he combines product-minded UX work (sound effects, webviews, sidebar integrations) with low-level code architecture and refactors that prevent issues like cyclic dependencies. This mix of startup leadership, public-facing education, and full-stack craftsmanship makes him adept at turning developer-facing ideas into polished, deployable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
English
Github Skills (51)
formik10
authorizations10
javascript10
webview10
expressjs10
antd10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
api-design10
web-token10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
apollo-server10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
benawad/dogehouse
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Taking voice conversations to the moon 🚀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 154 reviews, 1680 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the front-end user interface using React and TypeScript, as seen in their work creating and modifying various UI components. The user was also responsible for implementing features related to room creation, including the integration of the Express.js backend for room management. Their work also involved managing state using a dedicated store system, and implementing and integrating various sound effects.
reactreact-nativejavascriptelixirconversations
benawad/lireddit
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the backend and frontend of the lireddit project. They set up the database ORM (MikroORM) with PostgreSQL, implemented GraphQL resolvers for basic CRUD operations on posts, and integrated Apollo Server for the API. Additionally, the user worked on the frontend by setting up Next.js with Chakra UI and integrating GraphQL mutations for user registration and login, creating a complete end-to-end functionality for the application.
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