Benj Ledesma is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Philippines with 9 years’ experience building and scaling SaaS products across Rails and modern JavaScript stacks. He’s driven measurable business impact—leading initiatives that delivered 1.5X growth in marketplace transaction value and an 8X e-commerce uplift by simplifying onboarding, refining UX, and automating listing workflows. Comfortable spanning front-end, backend and data work, he champions engineering practices that increase reliability and team velocity: thorough testing, monitoring, documentation, and developer tooling. As a hands-on technical lead he builds pragmatic, extensible features (like a command palette and search-driven navigation) while mentoring engineers and translating complex workflows for non-technical stakeholders. Notably, his background in management engineering and analytics informs a data-driven approach to product decisions and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Engineering, Minor in Decision Science, BS Management Engineering, Minor in Decision Science at Ateneo de Manila University
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