Ben Morris
Founder at Stonecrop Research
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorBen Morris is a technologist with 16 years of experience helping founders scale their first engineering teams, blending hands-on engineering with hiring and process design. He’s led engineering at startups and scale-ups—co-founding Boltmade before its acquisition by Shopify, then growing into senior management roles at Shopify and Head of Engineering at Float. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he now applies his expertise at Stonecrop Research, focusing on building repeatable practices that turn small teams into reliable delivery engines. Known for mentoring engineering leaders and translating product goals into pragmatic execution plans, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade operational rigor. An advisor stint at MasterClass underscores his ability to influence product and org strategy beyond pure engineering.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (32)
twilio-api9
backbonejs9
twilio9
backbone9
vagrant7
gearman6
php6
ruby6
virtualization5
api5
automation5
profanity4
rails4
rspec4
python3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bnmrrs/PhoneTap
Aug 2010 - Sep 2010
Contributions:102 commits in 22 days
bnmrrs/ruby-youtube-dl
Oct 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 2 years 10 months
pythonyoutube-pythonyoutubeyoutube-dlpython3
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