Ben Bader
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Together AI
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBen Bader is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable systems end-to-end, from polished mobile UIs to high-throughput cloud infrastructure. He’s led mobile engineering at scale—growing KeepSafe’s Android app to 40 million users and shaping Outlook Mobile’s sync and compliance features at Microsoft—while also contributing practical tooling like enhancements to the popular dexcount-gradle-plugin. At companies from Rdio to Instacart and now Together AI, he blends low-latency mobile engineering, distributed backend design, and GPU orchestration to solve performance-critical problems. Based in Boulder, he thrives in intellectually demanding environments and prefers work that produces tangible social good.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Webster University
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Github Skills (19)
kotlin10
groovy10
android10
gradle-plugin10
gradlew10
proguard10
gradle10
android-tools9
java9
android-build9
android-sdk9
javas9
build-tools9
testing7
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
KeepSafe/dexcount-gradle-plugin
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
A Gradle plugin to report the number of method references in your APK on every build.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 releases, 4 reviews, 416 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben made multiple contributions to the `keepsafe/dexcount-gradle-plugin` repository, a Gradle plugin for Android development. Their work primarily involved enhancing the plugin's functionality by adding support for Proguard de-obfuscation, enabling field counts by default, and implementing new output formats such as JSON and YAML. Furthermore, they addressed various bugs, improved the efficiency of the plugin, and adapted it to support the latest Android Gradle Plugin versions.
apkgradle-pluginmethod-referenceandroidgradle
benjamin-bader/blog
Mar 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:16 PRs, 30 pushes, 19 branches in 7 years 7 months
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