Benjamin Hendricks
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SeniorBenjamin Hendricks is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-facing products across mobile, web, backend, and AI pipelines, currently shaping LinkedIn’s platform while founding and advising startups like Staked AI and Vokol. He began programming at 13 and has deep iOS expertise alongside meaningful contributions to Android Open Source from an early Google internship, reflecting a rare cross-platform fluency. A Harvard-trained software engineer with roots in Silicon Valley and dual US/France citizenship, he brings a global perspective and continuous learning mindset to product and technical strategy. Benjamin balances hands-on coding with leadership—having held engineering manager and staff roles at LinkedIn—and runs ndricks Software to incubate passion projects and client work. He’s especially interested in conversational AI for sports and analytics-driven product improvements, often blending experimentation with production-grade systems. Based in New Orleans, he combines startup hustle with large-scale platform experience to turn user problems into shipped solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
4,463reputation
453kreached
137answers
37questions
ios
top-5%
swift
top-5%
Github Skills (60)
closure10
target-action10
gesture-recognizer10
github-copilot10
uigesturerecognizer10
android-app10
selector10
carthage10
swift10
cocoapods10
data-structure9
ios9
algorithms9
ruby9
ocr9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
creatubbles/Rapid
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:109 commits, 25 PRs, 67 pushes in 7 months
testingtesting-frameworkui-testingnimble
coolbnjmn/TutorialToastView
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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