Ben Katz
Founder at Watchdog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Katz is a founder and former Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems and profitable bootstrapped SaaS. He founded watchdog.chat to tackle content moderation for online communities and runs Mockernut Ventures as a holding vehicle for solo-built businesses that reach profitability quickly. At DoorDash he led multiple teams to deliver event-driven parcel sortation, a 30x throughput improvement in routing during crisis demand, and the Shopper App—work that enabled new retail partnerships and time-sensitive relief efforts. He’s a hands-on polyglot (Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, Django, AWS, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL) who repeatedly designs API-first systems and automations from scratch. Ben publishes his founder journey publicly and streams development work, signaling an unusually transparent, builder-first approach to entrepreneurship. Based in New York, he combines deep engineering craft with practical product instincts for sustainable business models.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.74 / 4.0, BS, Computer Science, 3.74 / 4.0 at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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17answers
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Github Skills (194)
smtp-server10
nuget10
echo10
websocket10
nodemailer10
heroku10
vue-slider-component10
paas10
chatgpt-api10
middleware10
chatgpt10
whisper10
rabbitmq10
streaming-api10
golang10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bakatz/wip-to-x-bridge
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
bakatz/echo-logrusmiddleware
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
An adapter to make the Golang Echo web framework logging work with github.com/sirupsen/logrus.
Contributions:4 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
golanglogginglogrusweb-framework
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