Benny Wong
Engineering Manager at Whatnot
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Wong is an experienced engineering leader with 12 years in web and backend development, now managing teams at Whatnot after a progression through senior and director roles at GOAT Group. He has a strong hands-on background building and scaling high-traffic consumer platforms (including work for a site with 16M+ monthly visitors) and has shipped full-stack products from rapid MVPs to production-grade systems. Technically grounded in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Elixir/Phoenix, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, Benny also has deep experience with API integrations, AWS migrations, and background processing. He pairs product-minded engineering—user interviews, A/B testing and design thinking—with Agile leadership to turn customer insights into measurable improvements. Notably, he led a complete web app redesign at FitCause and created an open-source omniauth strategy for Nike+, showing a blend of product ownership and community contribution. Based in Santa Monica, he brings both startup agility and enterprise delivery experience to complex e‑commerce and consumer platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese
Github Skills (41)
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scroll-position10
browser-history8
command-line-utility8
ember-cli8
atom-editor7
javascript7
browser7
addon6
ember-addon6
pad5
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test-coverage4
intellij4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bennycwong/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
bennycwong/benny-ghost
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 4 months
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