Summary
Ben Reilly is a founder-stage software engineer and entrepreneur with six years of experience building full-stack products and platform services from prototype to launch. Based in San Francisco, he has co-founded multiple startups (including a CTO role at Banabo Labs) and shipped backend and frontend systems using Node, Express, React/Redux, and NoSQL datastores. His background spans platform engineering at T-Mobile, hands-on product engineering for games and payments, and tutoring computer science—showing both technical depth and an ability to explain complex concepts. A self-described wanabe cypherpunk with a memorable Spider-Man namesake, he blends practical engineering with privacy-minded curiosity and early-stage startup grit.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
S22, S22 at Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Gonzaga University