Ben Gotow
Founder & Principal Engineer at Foundry 376
General Trias, Cavite, United States
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Top SchoolBen Gotow is a founder and principal engineer with 17 years building elegant cross-platform applications and leading small, high-impact teams from product prototypes to shipped software. He founded Foundry376 and shipped notable products like Mailspring and Spark Inspector, and previously led front-end engineering at Nylas, where he architected high-performance client-side data layers and plugin-safe UIs. A polyglot focused on JavaScript (React/Electron/Node) and iOS, he’s an active open-source contributor with commits to flagship projects such as Electron and Dagster, improving desktop UX and complex front-end graph visualizations. Ben combines hands-on engineering, product sensibility, and DevOps experience, and has a background in HCI from Carnegie Mellon that informs his attention to usable, well-crafted interfaces. Less obvious: he’s influenced tooling used by other platforms—Spark Inspector inspired Xcode’s view debugger—showing his work often shapes larger developer ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Engineering, Biology, BE, Computer Engineering, Biology at Vanderbilt UniversityMasters, Human Computer Interaction, Masters, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (50)
javascript10
ios10
python10
electron10
ampl10
css10
typescript10
responsive-design10
ui-design10
google-amp10
uid10
front-end-development10
graph-visualization10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1647 reviews, 563 commits, 1309 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on front-end development, with significant focus on improving the UI for asset graph features within the Dagster project. The commits demonstrate work on both the general asset graph and the specific lineage views. Contributions include improvements to node styling, edge rendering, and the integration of tooltips and context menus to enhance user interaction with the graph's components.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
nylas/sync-engine
Apr 2014 - Sep 2016
:incoming_envelope: IMAP/SMTP sync system with modern APIs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:72 commits, 18 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben made contributions primarily focused on back-end development, including adding directory creation to the setup script, fixing linting errors in Python code, and refactoring code. They also handled merging branches and updating dependencies. Furthermore, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by modifying the setup script to install dependencies and configuring the build process.
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