Ben Williams
CEO at Ahoy Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Williams is a founder-led software engineer and CEO based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building consumer and AI-first products. He co-founded Ahoy Labs and AuxParty, shipping real-time, scalable web and mobile experiences using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, and now runs Ahoy as an AI-focused studio serving hundreds of thousands of users. Prior roles include lead and product engineering positions at MasterClass, Aero, and Ideaflow, plus hands-on security and code-review work at Microsoft, Tensentric, and PullRequest. He has deep practical experience navigating real-time streaming, legal/technical constraints for media, and end-to-end product delivery from prototype to millions of listens. Ben blends entrepreneurial grit with technical breadth—comfortable leading teams, doing code-level security audits, and shipping user-facing platforms. He prefers direct contact over social channels and can be reached by email for collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (200)
debounce10
animated10
cryptocurrency10
modular10
browser10
capstone10
api10
static-site-generator10
llama10
nodejs10
mongodb10
webml10
orm10
baud-rate10
frontend10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
719Ben/SocialCrypt
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
biw/gatsby-plugin-aphrodite
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Gatsby plugin that adds support for Aphrodite
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 11 months
gatsbygatsby-pluginaphroditegatsbyjs
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