Ben Lee-cohen
Product Manager at Lever INC
Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Lee-cohen is a product manager with 16 years of experience building user-centered software and leading cross-functional teams at companies from startups to Dropbox and Tailscale. He blends hands-on technical roots (SDET roles at Microsoft and coding work for education tools) with product strategy, having co-founded startups, advised Lever, and taught web development at Williams College. At Dropbox he has moved between senior product and product architect roles, and most recently joined Dropbox again in 2024 after a product leadership stint at Tailscale. His background in user research and a Berkeley MIMS inform a pragmatic approach to privacy, usability, and data-informed decisions. Known for turning early prototypes into customer-facing products, he also has a track record of mentoring non-technical learners and shipping tools that help parents and educators understand school performance.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MIMS, Information Science, MIMS, Information Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationPhysics, Physics at Williams College
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
vim10
command-line-tool10
clipboard10
vte10
mongodb10
visualization10
mail-client10
php10
oauth10
reader10
windows10
bash10
wireguard10
menu10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
heliostatic/completed-task-display
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Obsidian plugin to control the display of completed tasks
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
obsidianobsidian-mdobsidian-plugin
heliostatic/SFPD-Open-Email
May 2010 - May 2010
Contributions:36 commits in 4 days
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