J Bensing
VP, Technology at Falfurrias Management Partners
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJ Bensing is a seasoned technology executive with 14 years of experience scaling engineering organizations from early-stage codebases to enterprise-grade platforms and $1B+ valuations. Based in Charlotte, he has led teams at Mark43 and Regal.ai, growing engineering organizations to 140+ and 30 engineers respectively while driving strong retention, eNPS gains, and $20M+ ARR. He combines hands-on technical depth—early work on Mongoose and infrastructure at Mark43—with a focus on delivering mission-critical GenAI products in tightly regulated environments. Known for humility-first leadership, he prioritizes rapid decision-making, data-driven iteration, and building processes that ensure reliability and scalability for enterprise and government customers. He currently advises portfolio companies on engineering excellence and GenAI innovation as VP, Technology at Falfurrias Management Partners.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Harvard University
Japanese
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Github Skills (18)
mongoose10
javascript10
mongodb-database10
aggregation-framework10
database-design10
nodejs10
mongodb10
es6-promise9
testing9
ssh-keys9
docker9
logging6
apache-kafka6
django6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/mongoose
Jun 2013 - Feb 2014
MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:278 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to the Mongoose library by implementing new features, examples, and fixing existing functionality. Their work included adding features like geoSearch, aggregate, and mapreduce support, enabling more advanced database operations. They also fixed bugs related to update operations and toJSON transforms. In addition, the user added example code to highlight these features.
pythonasynchronousmongoodmmodeling
ebensing/node-rss
Jul 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 3 months
rssrss-readernode-jsbuilderrss-feed
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