Ben Calder
Managing Partner at Assembly Capital
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBen Calder is a managing partner and seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling software teams and products from Austin, Texas. He transitioned from hands-on roles—iOS developer and senior engineer—to technical leadership as Head of Software Engineering and now runs operations and strategy at Assembly Capital. Trained as an aerospace engineer at Georgia Tech, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to product and platform decisions, valuing rigor and operational discipline. His background includes COO and product management stints, which give him a rare blend of technical depth and business acumen for driving customer-focused outcomes. Known for a get-stuff-done ethos, he excels at turning ambiguous problems into pragmatic engineering roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, B.S., Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyWestlake High School
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Github Skills (52)
keybase10
pgp9
end-to-end-encryption9
azimuth9
service-client9
client-library9
chat9
nock8
operating-system8
react8
holochain8
urbit8
libp2p8
peer-to-peer8
react-native8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bencalder/urbit-install-scripts
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
bencalder/urbit-constitution-client
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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