Benjamin Lieb
Founder - PixelEarth Web Development And Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lieb is a founder and seasoned engineering manager with 15 years building web and mobile products from greenfield portals to production APIs, currently leading PixelEarth Web Development and Consulting out of San Francisco. He combines hands-on full‑stack skills (Ruby, Python, TypeScript, React/React Native) with product-minded leadership—hiring teams, migrating legacy systems in-house, and guiding roadmaps and CI practices. His background spans startups and mission-driven organizations, from founding engineering at Threadable to modernizing commerce, CRM, and publishing platforms at Wilderness Travel and PLOS. A polyglot in both programming and human languages, he has applied linguistics and curriculum design experience to build better UX and content tooling, an unusual cross-disciplinary strength that informs his work.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan Mandarin InstituteMaEd Instructional Design / Second Language Acquisition, MaEd Instructional Design / Second Language Acquisition at Virginia TechStudy Abroad Language Interpretation and Translation, Study Abroad Language Interpretation and Translation at Université d'AngersMandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan Chinese Academy
English, French, Italian, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
14,085reputation
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215answers
273questions
internationalization
top-1%
ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
jsx
top-1%
javascript
top-5%
html
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
jsx10
clozure-cl10
spice10
rails-app10
zsh10
activemodel10
react-tooltip10
tooltip10
searching10
php10
reader10
python10
bash10
ruby10
faunadb10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
benlieb/hanzi
Mar 2020 - Oct 2024
HanziJS is a Chinese character and NLP module for Chinese language processing for Node.js
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
nlpchineselanguage-processingnode-jscorpus
benlieb/chinese_console_public
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:15 comments, 3 issues in 4 years 6 months
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