Summary
Ben Nadel is a customer-focused full-stack engineer and product leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling web products, including co-founding InVision and shepherding it to a $1.2B valuation. He blends hands-on coding (JavaScript, Node, Angular, ColdFusion) with product advocacy, famously acting as the de facto Director of Product to defend existing customers during major replatforming efforts. Ben is pragmatic and action-oriented, favors battle-tested technologies, and introduced practices like feature flags, office hours, and experimental “Labs” to improve product delivery and customer outcomes. A prolific writer and educator, he has blogged since 2006 (4,500+ posts) and recently authored a book on feature flags, demonstrating deep long-term stewardship of products. Based in Rhinebeck, NY, he now modernizes legacy ERP workflows while maintaining a knack for practical tooling—he even created a public “Regular Expression Day,” reflecting a love of pattern-driven problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Tufts University
Hackley