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    Benny Wong

    Benny Wong

    Currently, building mobile apps @patreon

    Recently, software engineer @ @instagram. Previously cofounder & CTO of @timehop.

    Earlier, @gilt-city, @morgan-stanley, @columbia-university

    Software Engineer New York City Columbia University
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    Experience
    Instagram
    Instagram
    Software Engineer
    Software Engineer 2018 - 2021 (over 3 years)
    1 Second Everyday
    1 Second Everyday
    Advisor
    timehop
    timehop
    Founder, Cofounder & CTO 2011 - Present (over 15 years)
    Gilt Groupe
    Exit
    Gilt Groupe
    Technical Lead 2009 - 2011 (over 1 year)
    Gilt City * Hired as the sole engineer on Gilt City and developed the product from inception to launch. * Built the front end for the user-facing e-commerce experience, as... more well as the backend APIs and processes to handle transactional emails, order management, checkout, and more. * Hired a team of six engineers and a QA analyst. * Wrote Gilt City iOS app using Objective-C, as well as the supporting APIs in Java.
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Software Engineer 2007 - 2009 (about 2 years)
    * Implemented CRE CDO statistical pricing model with hundreds of risk scenarios. * Contributed to the MapReduce-like internal grid computing framework and utilized the framework... more on 1200+ computers to run nightly pricing scenarios. Projects
    Patreon
    Patreon
    Employee 2021 - Present (almost 5 years)
    Founder
    timehop
    Employee
    Patreon, Morgan Stanley, Gilt Groupe, Instagram
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    1 Second Everyday
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    About
    Achievements

    Previously cofounder & CTO @timehop, where we built a product with tens of millions of users and grew a team of over 20 people. Currently tech lead at Instagram.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Amazon Web Services Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Coding CSS Distributed Systems Git HTML Java Javascript Leadership Linux Management MySQL Nginx Objective-C PostgreSQL Python Redis Ruby on Rails Software Swift
    Locations
    Brooklyn
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