Ben Venker
Director Of Product at poolside
United States
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Top SchoolBen Venker is a product leader with 11 years of experience building developer-focused platforms and AI-enabled search at scale, now serving as Director of Product at poolside. He led product strategy and requirements for GitLab’s agent platform and global search, pairing enterprise governance with integrations across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to make agentic capabilities production-ready for regulated workflows. Prior roles include driving code search at Sourcegraph and GitLab, leading privacy-focused developer tooling at Privado.ai, and scaling analytics and workflow automation as VP Product at Juristat. Ben combines a strong technical appreciation for large-scale search and knowledge graphs with practical experience operationalizing privacy and compliance in the SDLC. A founder of a medical-simulation startup, he brings entrepreneurial grit and cross-domain problem solving to product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Economics, Bachelor of Science Economics at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
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Github Skills (67)
sourcegraph10
sprint10
code-generation10
code-search10
node-api10
code-interpreter10
developer-tools10
code-intelligence10
privacy-policy10
api9
gdpr9
plugin9
react9
scanning9
linux8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
benvenker/manual-invoices
Jan 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
benvenker/ics.js
Oct 2022 - Jul 2024
A browser firendly VCS file generator written entirely in javascript!!!!!!
Contributions:5 reviews, 15 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 8 months
vcsbrowserjsinteropjavascriptfile-generator
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