Benjamin Levy
Co-Founder & Partner at Foxhound Systems
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Levy is a software engineer and entrepreneur with six years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, web platforms, and developer tooling, currently co-founding and leading engineering at Foxhound Systems in Chicago. He combines a solid Computer Science foundation from UIUC with practical expertise across PHP/Laravel, WordPress integrations, real-time simulation systems, and tooling for scalable imports and SEO automation. Benjamin has driven measurable impact—from a 6x network interface speedup on an aircraft trainer to architecting a declarative import framework for thousands of legacy articles—and regularly bridges product, editorial, and engineering concerns. He mentors junior developers, champions developer ergonomics (Docker/XDebug), and favors pragmatic, repeatable solutions that reduce operational complexity. Notably, his background spans both aerospace-grade real-time systems and fast-iterating editorial products, giving him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and product-focused delivery.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (85)
persistence10
storage10
javascript9
haskell9
responsive9
postcss9
css9
tailwindcss9
rapid8
linux8
launchdarkly8
binding8
nodejs8
package-management7
sdk7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
foxhound-systems/eved
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
foxhound-systems/esqueleto
Dec 2019 - Mar 2023
New home of Esqueleto, please file issues so we can get things caught up!
Contributions:15 PRs, 160 pushes, 30 branches in 3 years 3 months
javascript
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