Benjamin Crandall
Lead Software Developer at Kindista
Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Crandall is a lead software developer and entrepreneur with 13+ years building full‑stack web applications and open-source systems, most notably co-designing Kindista—a Common Lisp gift-economy social network that pairs transactional mechanics with public gratitude as social currency. He blends hands‑on engineering (Linux/Common Lisp, HTML/CSS, UI design) with financial and nonprofit leadership, having founded and led CommonGoods Network and served as its treasurer. His background in accounting and MBA studies complements a long track record of product ownership: search algorithms, activity feeds, messaging, transaction systems and multi-threaded maintenance are among his core strengths. An investor and analyst in clean energy and EVs, he researches regenerative agriculture and geopolymer chemistry for 3D‑printed architecture, bridging software, sustainability, and hardware innovation. He’s also a practiced communicator and teacher—giving workshops on sharing economies and occasionally teaching taiji and performing saxophone—bringing cross-disciplinary creativity to technical problems. Based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, he combines startup grit with systems thinking to tackle community-scale access to food, housing, and healthcare.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.M., Jazz Saxophone, B.M., Jazz Saxophone at University of CincinnatiCertificate, Permaculture Design, Certificate, Permaculture Design at Lost Valley Education CenterMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship and Human Resources, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship and Human Resources at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, common lisp, Spanish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
548reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (11)
nodejs10
common-lisp10
react10
lisp10
javascript6
forms6
scopes6
scheme2
linux1
backup1
gfs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
kindista/kindista
Jan 2013 - Jan 2023
a social network for local sharing
Contributions:1513 commits, 376 pushes, 1 comment in 10 years 1 month
social-networkreactsharingnodejslisp
commongoods/cl-stripe
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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