Ben Fried
Venture Partner at Rally Ventures
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Fried is a seasoned technology leader and venture partner with 14 years at Google (including CIO and NYC Site Lead) and a long track record building enterprise-grade infrastructure dating back to Morgan Stanley and Columbia University. He designs engineering-centered IT organizations that apply product development disciplines to solve large-scale enterprise problems and has led Internet domain businesses and global IT growth initiatives. His background spans systems programming, distributed systems, developer toolchains, and decision-theoretic scheduling from an early Bay Area startup, giving him both deep technical roots and strategic operator experience. Based in New York, he combines operator rigor with investor perspective, focusing on early-stage business technologies that reshape markets. An AB in Computer Science from Columbia underpins a pragmatic approach to turning complex research ideas into production systems.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
AB Computer Science, AB Computer Science at Columbia UniversityHS, HS at Stuyvesant High School
Github Skills (17)
google-api9
client-library8
js-client8
nodejs7
google7
api6
authentication6
oauth5
jwt5
authorization5
post-quantum4
cloudflare-workers2
letsencrypt2
cloudflare2
golang2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benfried/dotfiles
Dec 2013 - Nov 2022
Contributions:190 commits, 103 pushes in 9 years
benfried/Phoodoku
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Sudoku game which uses a custom set instead of digits.
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gamedigitssudoku
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