Benji Welner
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenji Welner is an industrial designer-turned-software engineer with a decade of experience crafting elegant, user-centered systems from hardware to native iOS apps. Based in Palo Alto, he’s shipped product-defining UI work as the second engineer at Envelope and built embedded setup utilities and chat clients for Beeper’s Beepy hardware. His background in industrial and product design from Stanford gives him a rare blend of tactile product intuition and thoughtful software engineering. Known for a boisterous personality in his GitHub bio, he pairs curious experimentation with pragmatic delivery, having also deepened his craft through a residency at the Recurse Center.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
San Francisco University High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial and Product Design at Stanford University
Hebrew, English, Arabic, Chinese
Github Skills (156)
hugo-theme10
multithreading10
authentication10
ruby10
bencode10
macos-big-sur10
asmjs10
command-line-tool10
streaming10
distro10
twitter10
matrix10
torrent10
linux10
deb10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
smmr-software/mabel
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
A fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 231 commits in 1 year
bittorrenttorrentterminalbittorrent-clientfancy
smmr-software/privacy-redirect-safari
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A Safari extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and more to privacy friendly alternatives.
Contributions:175 commits, 5 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 7 months
safariprivacy-friendly-alternativesprivacyyoutubeprivacy-friendly
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