Benjamin Listwon
Founder at The People's Software
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Listwon is a veteran software architect and founder with nearly two decades of experience designing and delivering large-scale, API-driven systems for startups and Fortune 500s. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, having driven platform and developer experiences at Expedia and led front-end architecture at PayPal and Yelp during pivotal growth phases. Benjamin has founded and advised multiple startups and studios, contributed a Manning book on Vue.js, and repeatedly modernized legacy systems into scalable, distributed architectures. His work spans backend performance, responsive front ends and developer tooling, with a practical focus on empowering clients to own their products and decisions. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs enterprise-grade rigor with startup agility and a track record of participating in several high-value exits and IPOs. A less obvious strength is his repeated ability to translate complex, cross-organizational requirements into pragmatic, automated developer workflows that accelerate delivery.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at Cornell UniversityThe Hotchkiss School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
dropzone9
html-editor9
quill9
wysiwyg9
rich-text-editor9
text-editing9
compatibility8
previews8
contenteditable7
rte7
drag-and-drop7
file-upload7
collections6
extensibility6
drag6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BenjaminListwon/vue-vuex-demo
Sep 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
BenjaminListwon/benjaminlistwon.com
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
My personal tech blog
Contributions:29 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
reactnextjs
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