Benjamin Cate
Freelance Product Engineer at Lacuna Space
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cate is a freelance product engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building customer-focused web products and leading technical teams across startups and scale-ups. He has held hands-on and leadership roles—from CTO at RegLab and SURANCE to engineering manager at AutoTrack—specializing in SaaS, marketplaces, and regulatory/fintech solutions using stacks like Ruby on Rails, React, Scala and AWS. He combines product sensibility (owning roadmaps and customer experiences) with delivery discipline, introducing Agile, OKRs and lean practices to improve engineering outcomes. Known for a pragmatic philosophy of "don't solve a problem you don't have," he thrives on simplifying complex compliance and onboarding flows into fast, user-centric experiences. An experienced coach and teacher, he also brings a knack for connecting strategy to execution and mentoring teams through organizational change.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (18)
fetch8
region8
ruby-on-rails6
ember-data6
javascript6
data-loading5
ruby5
typescript5
reactive4
rails4
functional-programming4
java4
rxjs4
csharp4
declarative3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Codaisseur/taste-of-code-samples
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 5 months
javacsharp
hezus/d3_starter_rails
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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