Ted Benson
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Benson is a software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building AI-powered platforms and developer tools, currently shaping the future of creative tooling at Figma. He founded and scaled Steamship, an AI hosting platform that runs agentic workflows across millions of customer contexts, and previously built Cloudstitch—a Y Combinator startup acquired by Instabase—demonstrating repeated success turning research into product. At Instabase he led Machine Intelligence, shipping multimodal extraction models and the annotation/configuration tooling needed to deploy them in enterprises. His background includes research and teaching at MIT and ML internships at Google, reflecting deep ties to both applied research and production engineering. Based in San Francisco, he blends systems thinking with product-first engineering, often focusing on orchestration and data-driven automation for complex, real-world workflows. An understated throughline in his career is enabling non-technical users to control complex systems, from Cloudstitch’s content sync to Figma’s creative surface.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
shieldsio3
github1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cloudstitch-examples/portfolio
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:46 commits in 1 month
cloudstitch-examples/amazon-affiliate-store
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 commits in 7 days
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