Ben Gelsey
Director Of Engineering at Empire Flippers
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Gelsey is a Director of Engineering and seasoned Ruby on Rails expert with 11 years of experience building and leading remote-first teams at Empire Flippers, where he progressed from senior engineer to director while shipping a Rails + React marketplace used globally to buy and sell online businesses. He combines hands-on backend development, product-focused engineering leadership, and a talent for rapid prototypes—evident in side projects like BuyBaggage and Flights Machine that launched quickly and solved real-world travel friction. Comfortable across the full stack and infrastructure (Postgres, Sidekiq, AWS, Stripe integrations), Ben has a track record of migrating complex legacy systems and integrating third-party APIs for scalable SaaS and eCommerce products. He’s unusually globe-trotting for a remote leader—having met customers and teammates across five continents while still shipping code—which gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to distributed engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Science, B.S. Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Southern California
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (29)
react-component10
datagrid10
react10
share-link9
api8
api-documentation8
deeplink7
deep-linking7
openapi7
event-tracking7
sms6
documentation5
testing4
rest4
rest-api4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
theunixbeard/react_rails
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
theunixbeard/at_your_service
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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