Ben Borgers

Boston, MA / benborgers.com / linkedin.com/in/ben-borgers / benborgers@hey.com


Education


Tufts University: B.S. double major in Computer Science and Engineering Psychology (GPA: 3.97)

Clubs: President of JumboCode (175+ developers building software for nonprofits)

2021 – 2025

Experience


Owner.com: Software Engineer

June 2025 – present

  • Building a new website builder purpose-built for restaurant owners in the Owner.com mobile app
  • Regularly talking to and texting customers to get feedback as a solo engineer owning the project
  • Working across frontend (React Native) and backend (TypeScript) to ship the entire app end-to-end

Notion: Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2024

  • Built and shipped a new version of the callout block to the editor and public API
  • Worked across Notion’s complex editor frontend (React, TypeScript), backend (TypeScript), and large-scale migration framework

Locket: Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2023 – Spring 2024 (part-time from Fall)

  • Delivered highly anticipated features to millions of active users on a viral social media platform, working as one of two total Android (React Native) developers on the team
  • Ran my own A/B tests to quantify growth resulting from my changes and reported those findings to the team

Luma / Glow: Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2022

  • Streamlined interface for management of past events and improved emails to event attendees
  • Built public-facing wallet profile pages and emergency wallet transfer functionality for Glow crypto wallet

Buttondown: Software Engineer

June 2021 – present

  • Have worked part-time (10 hours/week) for the past 4 years on a small bootstrapped team (~10 employees)
  • Owned technical support, upskilled a new support team, and have built several large features end-to-end (Vue.js/TypeScript + Django/Python)

IBM Security: Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2019, Summer 2020

  • Built features for enterprise data security offering (React, TypeScript) and resolved accessibility issues blocking vendor approval

Projects


Tufts Meal Plan Wrapped (jumbo.cash): Spotify Wrapped for Tufts’ meal plans, used by 1,300+ students.

Kiwi (ask.kiwi): Question-asking app for college classrooms built for University of Michigan NSF research study. 2,000+ active student users at Michigan State, CUNY, and more, using it with professors of large lecture classes.

War Room (war.elk.sh): Social to-do list web and mobile app that allows you to cheer on your friends' accomplishments and tasks. 250+ college students use it to keep track of tasks and connect with their friends.

Blocks (blocks.elk.sh): Designed, built, and maintained a schedule app for my high school to navigate difficult Covid schedules. 2,100 students and teachers used the app on a daily basis throughout the year. Received MSSAA Award from Lexington High School for inventing this app to help the school community.