Ben Rugg
Co-Founder, CTO at Taimet
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBen 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-ChampaignIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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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 (7)
Github contributions (5)
benrugg/AI-Render
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Stable Diffusion in Blender
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 186 commits, 29 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.
blenderstable-diffusionaiblender-addon
markolson/kickscraper
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
API library for Kickstarter.com
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apiapi-librarykickstarter
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