Benjamin Encz
CEO & Co-Founder at Ashby
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Encz is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building product-driven teams and developer tools from Germany to San Francisco. As CEO and Co-Founder of Ashby he’s combining recruiting, analytics, and UX into a single platform while drawing on deep hands-on iOS and platform engineering experience from roles at PlanGrid and earlier startups. He’s known for hiring senior talent through network-driven outreach and for reshaping engineering orgs—introducing feature/platform team splits, career ladders, and cultural programs that boosted delivery. An active open-source contributor, Benjamin created and maintained parts of ReSwift, bringing unidirectional data flow patterns to Swift and improving code quality through tooling like SwiftLint. He’s also taught software engineering, led enterprise mobile projects, and quietly blends product instincts with developer ergonomics to ship pragmatic, well-documented systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Applied Computer Science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
English, German
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Github Skills (13)
swift10
redux10
documentation9
ios9
objective-c9
testing8
xcode6
parse-platform6
uistoryboard6
cocoa-touch6
rotation6
tuples6
ibinspectable6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ReSwift/ReSwift
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 191 commits, 164 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the project by adding the `MainReducer` and documenting its functionalities. They also worked on documentation, adding license and generated documentation for the code. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the codebase by adding SwiftLint and fixing linter issues in various files, including core types, tests and utils.
unidirectional-data-flowreswiftunidirectionalswiftredux
Ben-G/Lightdoc
Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 7 months
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