Ben Mcredmond
CEO And Co-founder at Equals
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Mcredmond is a seasoned founder and software leader with 17 years of experience building product-led startups and scalable backend systems, currently CEO and Co-founder of Equals in New York. He helped grow Intercom from early stage to a multi-million ARR business, founding its product-focused Growth team and scaling it to 30 engineers, designers, and PMs. Ben combines hands-on engineering—contributing bug fixes and performance improvements to notable open-source Ruby projects like mysql2 and intercom-ruby—with executive product and GTM leadership. His work spans deep backend reliability, database interactions and developer-facing libraries, informing his approach to building an AI-native successor to spreadsheets. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fluidly between code, product strategy, and scaling teams.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
apidoc10
mysql10
rspec10
databases10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
api10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
git9
version-control8
performance-optimization8
data-structures6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
intercom/intercom-ruby
Mar 2012 - Oct 2013
Ruby bindings for the Intercom API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the backend of the Intercom Ruby bindings project. Their work included adding the ability to set date fields to nil, improving code maintainability. They also updated the library version and incorporated necessary changes during a merge. Further work was done to add support for fetching avatar URLs for users.
apiintercom-apiruby-bindingsrubyintercom
brianmario/mysql2
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby - binding to libmysql
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `mysql2` Ruby library, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to the core functionality. Their work involved addressing issues related to result caching, streaming, and iteration behavior within the library's C extensions. Additionally, they made test improvements and bug fixes to the client-side code. These changes aimed to improve the library's reliability, performance, and adherence to expected behavior for MySQL database interactions in Ruby applications.
mysql-librarymysqlrubybinding
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