Ben Brostoff
Founder at Medley Relay Capital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Brostoff is a founder, CEO, and software engineer with 12 years of experience building full‑stack products and investing across the company lifecycle. He leads Medley Relay Consulting and co-founded Free Blocks, delivering AI, web, and mobile solutions using React, React Native, Node, Python, GraphQL, and cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. His background spans startups (including YC- and Accel-backed companies), federal government contracts (CMS), enterprise SaaS, and trading/finance roles, giving him a rare fluency in what solutions work in different organizational contexts. An author and active angel investor, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic capital allocation and prefers pragmatic, no‑silver‑bullet approaches—doing the work to create durable impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Economics at Duke University
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Github Skills (115)
python10
semantic-ui10
javascript10
optimizer10
espn10
typescript10
android10
react-library10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
redux10
frontend10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BenBrostoff/ReadyReader
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:96 commits in 5 days
BenBrostoff/draftfast
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
A tool to automate and optimize DraftKings and FanDuel lineup construction.
Contributions:3 reviews, 570 commits, 147 PRs in 7 years 3 months
pythontool-to-automatewnbafanduelpython-3
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