Ben D.

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• Use the community to strengthen leadership judgment, navigate career transitions, and work through complex organizational challenges.

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• Lead product strategy and hands-on development for new ventures at Trash Panda across AI-enabled prototyping, customer acquisition, subscription commerce, BI, UX, and technical execution.
• Rebuilt and advanced the company website using AI-assisted development workflows, moving from product strategy and design through implementation with limited engineering capacity.
• Launched a web-to-app subscription purchase flow, creating a new direct acquisition channel outside native app-store checkout and linking marketing, commerce, and activation.
• Built analytical models, dashboards, and data visualizations that gave leadership clearer visibility into acquisition, subscription, retention, and business performance.

At Slytrunk, we’re a digital shop full of diverse creative experts who partner with brands to expand a single product into an entire experience — achieving business goals by engaging fandom through connective fan ecosystems.

• Lead product strategy and cross-functional delivery for a 30+ person US-based studio building fan-facing digital experiences for Tier-1 sports/media brands.
• Worked with brands including NFL, Williams Racing (F1), World Surf League, International Champions Cup (Relevent Sports Group), Xumo (acquired by Comcast), U.S. SailGP Team, Major League Show Jumping, Alex Albon, Luke Browning, and Franco Colapinto.
• Drove the firm’s evolution from 100% engineering staff augmentation to integrated, outcome-oriented product teams with flexible scope contracts.
• Built the Product practice and hired a Creative Director (now Chief Creative Officer), establishing the product/design operating model and growing Design into a 5+ person function.
• Routinely lead the firm’s largest cross-functional programs with final decision authority over 20+ contributors across PM, Design, and Engineering and coordinate with commercial partners like Adobe, Gulf, and Kraken.
• Led product for Slytrunk on the FanCapital platform from early build through multi-property scale, translating high-level strategy into shipped product across product, design, and engineering.
• Delivered portfolio results including +2,296% registered-user growth and +12,249% DTC revenue growth; FanCapital now powers 10+ live platforms.
• Williams Racing served as FanCapital’s proving ground and launchpad — personalization at scale, race-day predictions, custom driver cards and badges.
• Helped grow a multi-million-fan database and significant seven-figure direct-to-consumer revenue potential for Williams in ~2 years.
• Led product for athlete and league launches, including Alex Albon’s owned FanCapital-powered platform with partner activations (SurveyMonkey, Domo).
• Led Major League Show Jumping and U.S. SailGP Team official apps and sites.
• Introduced Adaptive Draft Rank within NFL Fantasy+, the league’s first premium fantasy subscription, delivering real-time projection-driven draft guidance to millions of users.

• Joined Slytrunk as one of six employees and became iOS architecture lead for marquee sports products including World Surf League and NFL Fantasy.
• Built high-concurrency, real-time experiences across mobile, web, and connected TV.
• Led development of core live-sports capabilities spanning streaming video, real-time scoring, and draft and team-management experiences.
• Delivered analytics, advertising integrations, and event-critical releases serving millions of users.
• Operated as a product-minded engineer—defining MVPs, prototyping UX, shaping requirements, prioritizing telemetry, and driving iteration with cross-functional partners.
• Helped scale the studio to 15+ people through hiring, mentoring, and engineering leadership.
• This combination of technical depth and product ownership led to a transition into product management and ultimately company-wide product leadership.

Yahoo, the trusted guide for millions globally with iconic products for 30+ years—offers advertisers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to deliver results.

• Owned the Stats API powering Yahoo! Sports team pages, player profiles, schedules, standings, and rankings across multiple sports.
• Led end-to-end playoff and global-event experiences spanning data, APIs, UX, sponsorship, and localization, including the 2008 Olympics and 2010 FIFA World Cup across 24+ languages and regions.
• Improved repeatable delivery and real-time engagement by reducing annual playoff launch work from weeks to a single day and building automated commentary from live sports data.

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data.

• Contributed to Eclipse AJDT and core AspectJ, with code merged into mainline open-source releases used by the broader developer community.
• Designed runtime observability capabilities for dynamic AspectJ applications later incorporated into AJDT/AspectJ.
• Recognized as a named inventor on IBM-filed patents US20070124723A1 and GB0524112D0.
• Continued contributing remotely for 12 months after the internship, extending the work through the Eclipse open-source release process.