Ben Standefer
Founder & CEO at Stealth
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Standefer is a serial founder and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building high-performance consumer and enterprise products from startup to acquisition. He founded Command E (acquired by Dropbox) and helped scale its technology into Dropbox Dash, later serving as a Staff Engineer at Dropbox before returning to found a stealth startup. Ben blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (Electron, React, Rails, full‑text search, OAuth integrations) with product leadership and team building, recruiting engineers from top companies. His early career spans foundational roles at Eventbrite, Digg, and SimpleGeo/Urban Airship, where he earned three patents for location technology. Comfortable toggling between coding and strategy, he has repeatedly turned prototypes into scalable platforms and investor-backed businesses. Based in San Francisco with a BBA in MIS, he’s known for shipping fast search-driven UX and quietly tying deep infrastructure work to delightful user experiences.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems (MIS), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems (MIS) at Texas McCombs School of Business
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Github Skills (200)
salesforce-api10
javascript-client10
jsonb10
http-client10
deferred-loading10
linter10
cpp10
pkg10
html10
salesforce10
pretty-print10
saas10
apm10
oracle-db10
filter10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
aguynamedben/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:60 pushes in 5 years 3 months
aguynamedben/tesla-old
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
reactelectron-desktopelectronelectron-reactdesktop
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