Benton Anderson
Senior Backend Engineer at Hinge
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenton Anderson is a Senior Backend Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building data-driven, high-throughput systems and scaling early-stage engineering teams. He’s been a hands-on leader from founding engineering teams that powered a $6M Series A to growing teams and architecture at Repeat and Clearbit, with deep experience in Ruby/Rails, TypeScript, AWS, Postgres and analytics stacks like DBT/Snowflake. Benton contributes to prominent open-source projects—improving authentication and stability in Google's official Node.js API client—reflecting a focus on robust, maintainable integrations. He also advises startups and acts as a fractional CTO, designing event-driven and analytics platforms (Dynamo/Lambda/Redshift) and helping with recruiting and fundraising. Known for combining pragmatic engineering with product-minded delivery, he repeatedly balances hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Foundations, Data Science Foundations at NC State University Graduate SchoolGraduate, Mathematics, Graduate, Mathematics at Emporia State UniversityB.S., Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics minor, B.S., Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics minor at Southeast Missouri State University
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Github Skills (16)
user-authentication10
google-api10
nodejs10
javascript10
authentication10
googleapis10
api10
client-library10
apidoc10
oauth9
inappbrowser6
ionic-framework6
typescript6
ionic6
angular6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Google's officially supported Node.js client library for accessing Google APIs. Support for authorization and authentication with OAuth 2.0, API Keys and JWT (Service Tokens) is included.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benton primarily focused on enhancing the Google API Node.js client library. Their contributions involved adding a method to retrieve access tokens using refresh tokens, updating method names, and implementing fixes to prevent the creation of duplicate API discovery objects. Furthermore, the user made some cleanup and formatting improvements across several library files, enhancing code readability and maintainability. These modifications reflect a focus on improving the library's authentication flow and overall stability.
js-clienttokensgooglejwt-serviceapi-keys
bentona/r2bot
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:65 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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