Benjamin Willis
Distinguished Software Engineer at HackerOne
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Willis is a Distinguished Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable web platforms and pioneering AI-driven offensive security tools at HackerOne. He combines hands-on full-stack development (Rails, React) with security leadership—creating incident response teams, driving SSO/2FA adoption, and supporting ISO27001/SOC2/FedRAMP compliance. As an engineering leader he defines technical strategy, optimizes cross-team velocity, and frames investment decisions across product, maintenance, and delivery. Earlier in his career he co-founded telecom startups, holds a provisional patent for radio call processing, and built low-latency telephony gateways—demonstrating deep systems and real-time networking expertise. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-focused execution with risk-aware architecture and a knack for turning security learnings into developer-friendly, safe-by-default systems. His public-facing work at HackerOne underscores a commitment to transparent vulnerability disclosure and measurable improvements in platform resilience.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Computer Engineering Technology Computer Engineering Technology and Computer Science, Bachelors of Computer Engineering Technology Computer Engineering Technology and Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyComputer Engineering Technology/Technician, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology
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Github Skills (171)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Hacker0x01/fluent_logger_rails
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:19 PRs, 25 pushes, 19 branches in 4 years 5 months
bwillis/jekyll-github-sample
May 2014 - Nov 2021
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Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 13 PRs in 7 years 7 months
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