Benjamin Rahn
Founder & Director at ActBlue
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Rahn is a founder and product engineering leader with 15 years of experience building high-impact web platforms, best known for founding ActBlue, which has raised over $12 billion for Democratic causes. After leaving a physics PhD at Caltech, he translated academic rigor into product-focused engineering at Stripe, rising to staff engineer and shaping payments infrastructure. He combines hands-on technical chops with product vision and fundraising savvy, having launched multiple startups and viral web projects like Mashup Breakdown. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs deep quantitative training in physics and math with a knack for shipping intuitive, scalable user-facing systems and mentoring teams. An often-understated strength is his ability to bridge technical execution and organizational growth, from two-person founding teams to leading engineering at major platforms.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyB.A. Physics and Mathematics, B.A. Physics and Mathematics at Harvard UniversityTJHSST
Github Skills (80)
openai-whisper10
javascript9
pylance9
docker-compose9
whisper9
transcription9
database9
postgresql9
visualization9
orm9
mysql9
mariadb9
typescript9
sqlite9
stripe-api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brahn/mashup-breakdown
Nov 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:295 commits in 9 months
brahn/sl-dashboard-test
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Playing with streamlit data dashboard library
Contributions:12 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 28 days
dashboard-librarypythonstreamlitformula1data-dashboard
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