Ben Hylak
Co-Founder & CTO at Raindrop
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Hylak is a product-minded engineer and designer with a decade of experience building immersive user interfaces and systems, now co-founding and serving as CTO of Raindrop in San Francisco. He helped shape visionOS as a lead Human Interface designer at Apple and holds 40+ patents spanning design and engineering, reflecting a rare blend of aesthetic judgment and technical rigor. His background includes avionics software at SpaceX and AR prototyping roles at Google, underscoring comfort with high-assurance systems and spatial computing. Trained in computer science and robotics at WPI, he moves fluidly between hardware-near work and polished consumer experiences—somewhere between engineer and designer, he makes things that are both beautiful and functional.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Robotics Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English
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Github Skills (153)
language-model10
javascript9
generative-ai9
gemini9
android-application9
nextjs9
llm9
scrollable9
openai9
react9
anthropic9
artificial-intelligence9
typescript9
vue9
nodejs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
LabsLLC/labs-android
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 25 PRs in 26 days
android-appkotlinandroid
FundacionParaguaya/ps-advisor-app
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Android application for social workers applying the Poverty Stoplight.
Contributions:26 releases, 258 PRs, 647 pushes in 9 months
android-application
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