Ben Blaine
Chief Bitcoin Officer at Neurabuild
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolBen Blaine is a product-focused technology leader and founder with a decade of experience building developer communities, payments products and hardware-software ventures from Cape Town. As Chief Bitcoin Officer at MoneyBadger he’s focused on making Bitcoin payments ubiquitous, while his work founding Neurabuild brings together researchers and engineers to build next‑gen systems. He has a proven track record growing and running large developer programs at OfferZen—designing onboarding, running hundreds of events and hackathons, and helping thousands of developers ship projects—and earlier helped scale SnapScan’s merchant roll-out to nationwide adoption. Ben blends hands-on product experimentation with community-driven growth, and often prototypes solutions that bridge physical and digital user experiences. Colleagues know him for relentless curiosity and a knack for turning grassroots validation into scalable product operations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering at University of StellenboschMatric, Matric at Somerset College, Western Cape, South Africa
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (41)
attiny10
teensy10
temperature-sensor10
arduino-library10
parsing9
google-sheets9
arduino9
dialogflow8
api8
rails8
spreadsheet8
ruby8
conversation8
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OfferZen-Community/plant_tech_ams
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Plants, Arduino boards, moisture sensors and watering systems
Contributions:9 reviews, 211 commits, 31 PRs in 7 months
teensysensorsattinyarduino-libraryplants
OfferZen-Make/root-chatbot
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Materials for Build a Chatbot on the Root API Course
Contributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 month
nlpapiconversationdialogflowchatbot
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