Ben Brostoff
Founder And CEO at Launchpad Venture Group
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Brostoff is a founder, CEO, and software engineer with 12 years of experience building full‑stack products and investing across the company lifecycle. He leads Medley Relay Consulting and co-founded Free Blocks, delivering AI, web, and mobile solutions using React, React Native, Node, Python, GraphQL, and cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. His background spans startups (including YC- and Accel-backed companies), federal government contracts (CMS), enterprise SaaS, and trading/finance roles, giving him a rare fluency in what solutions work in different organizational contexts. An author and active angel investor, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic capital allocation and prefers pragmatic, no‑silver‑bullet approaches—doing the work to create durable impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at Duke University
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Github Skills (175)
python10
declarative10
javascript10
optimizer10
api10
espn10
typescript10
android10
react-library10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
user-interface10
redux10
frontend10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BenBrostoff/ReadyReader
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:96 commits in 5 days
BenBrostoff/Angular-JS-Lightning-Talk
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:76 commits in 1 month
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