Ben Horowitz
Founding Engineer at Hyperspell (YC F25)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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SeniorBen Horowitz is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 10+ years building high-scale backend systems, APIs, and microservices across startups and enterprises from Twilio/Segment to WeWork and Headway. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring integrations and destination frameworks used by hundreds of partners—with strategic delivery, having led PHI privacy, AuthZ replatforms, and large migrations that saved millions annually. Known for turning complex technical tradeoffs into clear cost/benefit roadmaps, he excels at grooming backlogs to maximize business impact and shipping reliable, secure systems at scale. As a contributor to Segment’s action-destinations integrations, he has practical experience extending platforms to third-party services like HubSpot and Braze. Based in Los Angeles, he’s equally at home managing teams, shipping product features, and diving into technical debt reduction. Outside work he channels the same curiosity into cooking, food science, and rescuing animals—hinting at a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach both to engineering and life.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
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api10
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typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/action-destinations
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Action Destinations are the new way to build streaming destinations on Segment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 28 commits, 31 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the integration of various third-party destinations, including Friendbuy, Close, Actable-Predictive, and HubSpot, into the Segment platform. Their work involved registering new destinations, modifying existing destination configurations, and adding generated types to support the integrations. They also updated generated types for Braze, showing a focus on maintaining compatibility and expanding the functionality of supported services within the destination framework.
destinationsstreamingsegment
benhorowitz-com/benhorowitz.com
Jul 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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