Ben Pearson
Sr. Director, AI And Product Marketing at LinearB
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBen Pearson is a senior director specializing in AI and product marketing who helps engineering organizations accelerate AI productivity at LinearB, following a decade-plus career at the intersection of developer advocacy, open source, and technical marketing. He has led developer marketing and advocacy teams at Mattermost, Nylas, and Verizon Media, driving measurable growth such as doubling or quadrupling organic traffic and launching programs that generate substantial monthly organic visits. Ben combines strategic messaging and hands-on technical content—API docs, demos, workshops—and has practical experience restructuring documentation (contributions to the Mattermost docs highlight his attention to clarity and deployment guidance). He’s rebuilt conference programs and community initiatives from scratch, and scaled community writing programs that delivered dozens of technical pieces and thousands of monthly visitors. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he blends academic teaching experience and open source stewardship with product-led growth tactics. An interesting, less obvious strength: he began his career running his own tech services business and a high-volume open source news blog, demonstrating early entrepreneurial drive and content discipline.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information & Communication Sciences, Master's degree, Information & Communication Sciences at Ball State University
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Github Skills (14)
markdown10
mattermost10
markdown-it10
documentation10
gmail6
mailgun6
e-mail6
fullcalendar6
nodejs6
office3656
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/docs
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Mattermost documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Mattermost documentation repository. Their work focused on creating and updating user guides, adding content to existing guides, restructuring documentation for deployment, and fixing formatting errors. They also updated the documentation with links to the correct resources and removed outdated content.
mattermost-documentationmattermost
blp-test-dev/hello-gitStream
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 168 PRs, 909 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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