Benjamin Rahn
Summary
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SeniorBenjamin Rahn is a seasoned software founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable platforms in startups and growth environments. As Founder and Director of ActBlue, he grew a two-person founding team into a full-fledged fundraising technology used by political campaigns and grassroots movements, while continuing to advise from the board level. He spent seven years at Stripe, advancing from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer and helping scale payments and infrastructure for high-growth products. With a Harvard College BA in Physics and Mathematics and ongoing physics work toward a Caltech ABD, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic product engineering. He also led early ventures like MixApp and Mashup Breakdown, translating complex user needs into practical features and building communities around his products. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends technical depth with strategic execution and a track record of turning ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
stripe-payments8
stripe-api8
stripe8
api7
node-js5
nodejs5
psd24
ruby4
golang3
nearest-neighbors2
kernel-methods2
decision-tree2
machine-learning1
ensemble-learning1
scala1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brahn/mashup-breakdown
Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 4 months
neveragaindottech/neveragaindottech.github.io
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Source files for the neveragain.tech site
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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