Hello! I’m Ben Borgers, a senior at Tufts University studying computer science and engineering psychology.

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I’m currently an engineer at Buttondown. Previously, I interned at Notion, Locket, and Luma.

At Tufts, I’m the president of JumboCode, a club of 175 students that builds software for non-profits.

Work experience

• Notion (summer 2024): Built and shipped a new callout block to the editor and public API.
• Buttondown (summer 2021 – present): Support engineer & product engineer.
• Locket (summer 2023 – spring 2024): Working on Android version of social media app; shipped features to millions of users regularly.
• Luma and Glow (summer 2022): Full-stack engineering intern.
• IBM Security (summer 2019 + 2020): Software engineering intern.

Projects

• Speakology: AI speaking partner for language learning.
• Govcentives: Search engines for clean energy incentives, licensed to power authorities in California.
• Tufts Meal Plan Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped style report for Tufts’ meal plans that 500+ students used.
• Photo of the Day: Ongoing project where I take one photo for every day.
• diffeqgrapher.com: Simpler and friendlier differential equations grapher for my dad’s classes.
• Kiwi: Live Q&A platform for university classes; built for University of Michigan research study and currently used by 2,000+ students.
• War Room: Social to-do list app for my friends and I, that is used by a couple hundred university students.
• Bagel Institute: Teaching tools for university classes; built for my dad to use in his classes.
• opensheet: Open-source Google Sheets API that receives over 200 million requests/month. People mostly discover it from this blog post.
• emojicdn: CDN for PNG images of emojis that gets millions of requests/month.
• Blocks: A schedule app I built for my high school over Covid that was used by 2,100 students and teachers (87% of the school).