Benjamin Kostenbader
Founder at Dot Foundry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kostenbader is a founder and full-stack web developer with a decade of experience building client-facing websites, front-end experiences, and backend integrations across WordPress, Shopify, Jamstack, and Vue. He runs Dot Foundry, a design collective that reduces agency churn by creating direct relationships with top local branding, illustration, and digital marketing talent, and operates Monjibram for freelance consulting. His work spans OAuth, REST APIs, CI/CD, and complex data integrations, and he has held senior development roles at Top Hat where he scaled product-facing web systems. An Oxford-educated scholar in Classical Hebrew Studies, Benjamin also brings a unique background in international education and public-sector program management from Seoul, where he earned honorary recognition for his impact. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a multidisciplinary perspective that blends design, teaching, and technical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Studies, Master of Studies at University of OxfordBA, BA at Penn State UniversityN/A, N/A at The Hebrew University
English, modern hebrew, classical hebrew, Korean
Stackoverflow
190reputation
18kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (29)
markdown10
seo10
typewriter10
jekyll10
json-ld10
social-media10
static-site-generator9
ruby9
blog-engine9
search-engine8
scrollbar7
html6
firefox6
carrousel6
svg6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
benjithaimmortal/cover2creds
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
I couldn't not use Jekyll in this fun one-pager. Check out that Rellax.js, tho!
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
rellaxone-pagerrellax-jsjekyllpodbean
top-hat-imc/headless-sub
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:275 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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