Drew Beckmen
Founding Engineer at Ropes
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Beckmen is a founding engineer with 10 years of software experience, currently building Ropes to transform hiring and talent vetting for the AI era. A summa cum laude Yale graduate in Computer Science and Economics, he combines rigorous technical training with a product-oriented mindset and strong communication skills honed as a university sports reporter. His background spans cloud and full-stack engineering at MongoDB and impactful internships at Code.org, Virtu Financial, and Teamshares, demonstrating comfort with both large-scale systems and mission-driven products. Drew has a track record of shipping practical tooling—ranging from a Rails/React COVID-19 tracking portal to cloud features—and moves quickly from prototype to production. Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial drive with disciplined engineering practices and a knack for translating user needs into reliable, testable software. An unusual strength is his education-focused perspective, informed by formal study and hands-on work in edtech and community-facing projects.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at Flatiron SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Economics at Yale UniversityThe Pingry SchooliOS Development, iOS Development at CodePath
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
databases10
cpp10
mongodb10
cplus10
mongodb-database10
database10
concurrency10
unit-testing9
nosql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drew-beckmen/pingry-covid-portal-backend
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:143 pushes in 1 year 7 months
drew-beckmen/pingry-covid-portal-frontend
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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