Ben Rodigas
Vice President Design at Academia.edu
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Rodigas is a design leader with 11 years of experience at the intersection of product, growth, and UX, currently serving as Vice President of Design at Academia.edu in San Francisco. He has scaled design teams from hands-on product work to executive leadership, previously leading design and product at LifeDojo, GearLaunch, and Comcast Interactive Media. Ben combines a startup founder’s experimental, lean approach—with a track record of launching a learning startup and co-founding a civic platform—with enterprise experience shaping personalization and cross-platform UX. His background in advanced software engineering and development studies gives him a rare fluency across design, front-end implementation, and strategic product decisions. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who still prototypes and iterates alongside teams while driving measurable growth and engagement.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Course, Advanced Software Engineering Course at Hack ReactorBA Development Studies with History, BA Development Studies with History at SOAS University of London
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
chartjs6
angularjs6
react3
Github contributions (5)
ThoughtfulWalrus/ThoughtfulWalrus
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 27 PRs, 7 pushes in 12 days
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