Ben Demers
Founding Full Stack Engineer at Confido
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen Demers is a Founding Full Stack Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building data-driven web products and networked systems, currently leading engineering at Confido in New York. A UPenn graduate in Networked and Social Systems Engineering, he blends machine learning and full-stack expertise with startup grit from roles at Fanaply, HubSpot, and student-led Hack4Impact where he moved between development and leadership. His background includes applied data science at Schneider Electric and a history of translating research-minded approaches into production features, plus public speaking and mentoring experience. Comfortable across back-end, front-end, and data pipelines, he’s passionate about open source and social impact—often tackling problems that sit at the intersection of networks, data, and user growth.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Masconomet High SchoolBachelor's degree, Networked and Social Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Networked and Social Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (29)
mongoose10
sendgrid10
mern10
serve10
expressjs9
web-application9
redux9
material-ui9
boilerplate9
mongodb8
typescript8
nodejs8
react7
scraper5
discord5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hack4impact-upenn/coach-me-health
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
CoachMe Health (F2020): SMS messaging dashboard for accessible healthcare.
Contributions:1 review, 35 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 months
accessiblehealthsmsf2020dashboard
hack4impact-upenn/website
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Hack4Impact UPenn Chapter's Official Website
Contributions:14 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
hack4impactupennreactjavascriptchapter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.