Buster Benson
Principal Product Manager at 750Words
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBuster Benson is a product leader and founder with 14 years of experience building developer platforms, consumer products, and habit-forming services at companies including Slack, Twitter, Medium, Patreon, and Amazon. He founded and still runs 750words.com, a profitable, ad-free journaling business he modernized with Rails/Vue and AI features that drove notable paid-tier adoption. At Slack he helped create and scale the Platform team and App Marketplace from a handful of engineers to a core pillar with hundreds of thousands of developers; at Medium he steered a turnaround back to growth and profitability. Author of Why Are We Yelling? he blends product craft with deep interest in collaborative disagreements, behavior change, and developer ecosystems. Based in Berkeley, he pairs hands-on engineering roots with creative, human-centered product strategy focused on making life a little better through technology.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A English / Creative Writing, B.A English / Creative Writing at University of Washington
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Github Skills (9)
transparency10
philosophy10
react9
nextjs9
universe7
idris6
deep-learning4
letterpress3
obsidian1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
busterbenson/buster-wiki
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A personal homepage.
Contributions:332 commits, 179 pushes in 4 years
hugo-sitereactnextjspersonal-homepage
busterbenson/book-of-loops
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
A psychotechnology for deepening our connection to our inner self, our social structures, and the physical universe.
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
universedeep-learningneural-networksphysicalconnection
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