Ben Menesini
Staff Software Engineer at Rover.com
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Menesini is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and leading full-stack web teams for startups and scale-ups. At Rover he led internationalization, localization, and GDPR compliance efforts that enabled rapid expansion from two to ten countries while coordinating cross-functional launch operations. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, Django, React, Typescript) with people management and project leadership, having managed teams and mentored engineers through architecture, tooling, and process improvements. His background spans SaaS, two-sided marketplaces, and high-throughput web systems—from rebuilding legacy SPAs to architecting data and compliance solutions. Ben also has deep product-focused experience from earlier roles (including game prototyping and analytics at IGT and ShortStack) that helps him translate business requirements into pragmatic technical designs. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who improves both code and the organizational practices around it.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Graduated with High Distinction, BS, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Graduated with High Distinction at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (120)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sayhiben/awesome-playdate
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A list of awesome resources for Playdate (https://play.date) game development and the Playdate SDK (https://play.date/dev/)
Contributions:23 reviews, 99 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 4 months
playdateluapulpazerothcorepanic
sayhiben/cracking-the-coding-interview-6th-edition-in-ruby
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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