Ben Getson
Head Of Product, Application Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Getson is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building platform-first products that developers and enterprises rely on. Currently Head of Product for Sanity’s Application Platform and an advisor to clean-energy startup Pencil Energy, he specializes in designing APIs and programmable building blocks that scale across web and real-world experiences. Ben has led product teams at high-growth startups and at Twilio, and has also steered citizen-facing digital services inside the U.S. government—where he launched multi-million-user initiatives inside the IRS and Department of Commerce. He combines entrepreneurial grit and deep technical fluency, having earlier built trading and ML infrastructure as a lead developer. Known for growing teams that champion users and ship reliable, delightful products, he balances platform strategy with hands-on delivery. Based in Portland, he brings a knack for translating regulatory and enterprise constraints into elegant, production-ready developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science & Information Studies, B.A., Computer Science & Information Studies at Duke University
Github Skills (30)
visualize10
twilio-flex10
irs10
forum10
twilio10
postgresql9
javascript9
ruby9
typescript9
rails9
ember9
mhealth9
discourse9
monorepo9
uswds8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
betterlink/betterlink.github.io
Sep 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:193 commits, 43 pushes in 4 years 7 months
betson/irs-efile-viewer
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
A utility to visualize individual IRS e-File returns
Contributions:122 commits, 26 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 years 4 months
visualizereturnsindividualirs
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