Ben Rugg - Co-Founder, CTO at Taimet

Ben Rugg

Co-Founder, CTO at Taimet

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Ben Rugg is a seasoned founder and CTO with over two decades of full‑stack engineering experience and two successful SaaS exits, currently building an AI-driven antitrust analysis platform for market release in 2025. He combines hands-on architecture and infrastructure work across AWS, Firebase and Google Cloud with deep LLM expertise and production OpenAI integrations, having helped ship systems that handle millions of daily requests. Ben has repeatedly launched consumer and developer-facing products—from a templated website SaaS that scaled to tens of millions of monthly visits and $500M+ payment volume, to popular open-source AI tools like AI-Render (50k+ downloads) that bridge Stable Diffusion and Blender. A pragmatic investor and volunteer leader, he mentors early-stage founders and has applied governance and finance skills as a long-time board president of a private school. Practical, creative, and curious, he thrives at the intersection of design, AI and scalable engineering.

11 years of coding experience

24 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Stackoverflow

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ruby-on-rails

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string-interpolation

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Github Skills (21)

apim10

python10

ui-design10

uid10

api10

front-end-development10

addon10

image-processing9

ruby9

stable-diffusion9

string-interpolation9

yaml9

configurations9

ruby-on-rails9

blender8

Programming languages (6)

TypeScriptJavaScriptGoJupyter NotebookRubyPython

Github contributions (5)

benrugg/AI-Render

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

Stable Diffusion in Blender

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:26 releases, 186 commits, 27 PRs in 3 months

Contributions summary:Ben contributed significantly to the `ai-render` repository, a project focused on Stable Diffusion within Blender. Their work involved establishing the core functionality of the add-on, starting with setting up compositor nodes to handle image processing, and then building out the necessary API request logic. They also implemented UI elements to allow users to interact with the Stable Diffusion model. Furthermore, the user added image dimension options.

dreamboothblenderdiffusionblender-addonstable-diffusion

benrugg/Arduino-Hex-Decimal-Conversion

Mar 2015 - Sep 2020

Contributions:1 push, 2 comments, 1 issue in 5 years 7 months

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