Ben Willman
Chief Technology Officer at Think of Us
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Willman is a strategic technology leader and product-focused CTO with 12+ years building 0-to-1 products across startups, civic tech, and enterprise SaaS. He combines deep technical chops with a knack for asking the right questions to simplify messy people-and-technology problems, having led cross-functional teams at Zapier, Lido, and as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. Ben specializes in low-code platforms, workflow automation, and AI-augmented human workflows, and has repeatedly shipped prototypes into user co-creation and scalable products (8K users at Lido; Maker platform work at Zapier). He pairs hands-on engineering experience—from Python/Django to cloud integrations—with product strategy and stakeholder alignment in complex multi-party domains like healthcare and federal services. An avid mentor and translator between product, engineering, and customers, he also consults fractional product strategy for founders building AI and security-sensitive workflow tools. Based in Washington, DC, he brings an uncommon mix of civic-tech scale experience and startup velocity to growth-stage SaaS challenges.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Zoology and Russian History, Bachelor of Science Zoology and Russian History at University of Wisconsin-Madison
French
Github Skills (21)
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jekyll-theme8
jekyll8
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javascript6
dns-record5
django5
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
presidential-innovation-fellows/epa-opp-explorer
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 22 days
oppuser-interfacestaffintuitive
presidential-innovation-fellows/epa-opp-api
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 months
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