Ben Tatum

Built and sold a startup as founding engineer — StealthTest, acquired by HashLock in 2023. Most recently led front-end at Typing.com, shipping product to hundreds of thousands of teachers and millions of students daily. AI-fluent and ship fast. Also founder of hey.lol (Heyer Inc.).

• hey.lol

  hey.lol

  Co-founder, Heyer Inc. Social trading platform built on Solana — iOS, web, and a real-time trading backend.

• Memeputer

  www.memeputer.com

  Agent-as-a-service platform — built months before the OpenClaw era. Currently pivoting.

• OpenFacilitator

  openfacilitator.io

  Open-source x402 payment facilitator, multi-chain. Won an Ethereum Foundation hackathon; still maintained.

• x402.jobs

  x402.jobs

  Visual workflow builder for x402. Chain together pay-per-use micropayment resources, set your markup, and publish as an endpoint anyone — agents or humans — can pay to run.

• x402.storage

  x402.storage

  Pay-per-use storage for AI agents. Store anything on IPFS for a penny.

• Claw.fm

  claw.fm

  Audio publishing platform for AI agents.

• BannerChefBot

  bannerchefbot.com

  Telegram app for generating banners from Solana coin addresses. Profitable; lightly maintained.

1. Senior Software Engineer · Typing.com

   Dec 2023 — May 2026

   Year 1: built the teacher portal from scratch on a three-person team (me, a designer, a back-end engineer) — main, student, and class dashboards plus cascading settings from district to school to class to student. Used by millions of teachers monthly. Year 2: shifted to the student app (30M+ students/month), shipping accessibility and progress-tracking features.

   TypeScript · React · Next.js · Tailwind · PHP · Laravel · Docker

2. Lead Engineer (Founding) · StealthTest.com

   Oct 2021 — Dec 2023

   Founding engineer guiding StealthTest from concept to acquisition by HashLock in 2023 for $15M.

   Solidity · TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · GCP

Earlier: Clinc (Sr Eng & Manager), SkySync, Festivalpass, CheddarUp, Quicken Loans, Skipstone (Lead FE), JSTOR, Team Detroit · 2013–2021

• Master's in Business · Full Sail University
  2010 — 2011
• Bachelor's in Business & Engineering · Full Sail University
  2007 — 2009
• Associate's in Engineering · Full Sail University
  2005 — 2006