{"name":"Ben Tatum","title":"Senior / Founding Software Engineer","location":"Michigan","email":"mail@bentatum.com","phone":"248-835-4816","website":"https://www.bentatum.com","links":[{"label":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/rawgroundbeef"}],"summary":["Senior product engineer who turns ambiguous ideas into shipped software: an acquired startup product, high-traffic education platforms, crypto payment infrastructure, and AI-agent tools.","Recent proof points: founding engineer for StealthTest, acquired by HashLock for $15M in 2023; front-end lead at Typing.com, used daily by millions of students and teachers.","Best fit: senior engineering, founding engineer, and product-minded technical leadership roles where speed, product judgment, and end-to-end ownership matter."],"experience":[{"role":"Founding Engineer","company":"Joymore","companyUrl":"https://joymore.com","start":"2026","end":"Present","description":""},{"role":"Senior Software Engineer","company":"Typing.com","companyUrl":"https://typing.com","start":"Dec 2023","end":"May 2026","description":"Led front-end development across Typing.com’s teacher and student products, shipping software used daily by millions of students and educators. Built the teacher portal from scratch on a small cross-functional team, including dashboards and cascading district-to-student settings. Later shipped accessibility and progress-tracking improvements across the high-traffic student experience.","highlights":["Led front-end across teacher and student products used daily by millions.","Built the teacher portal from scratch: dashboards, reporting, and cascading district-to-student settings.","Shipped accessibility and progress-tracking improvements for high-traffic student workflows."],"stack":["TypeScript","React","Next.js","Tailwind","PHP","Laravel","Docker"]},{"role":"Lead Engineer (Founding)","company":"StealthTest.com","companyUrl":"https://www.stealthtest.com","start":"Oct 2021","end":"Dec 2023","description":"Founding engineer guiding StealthTest from concept to acquisition by HashLock in 2023 for $15M.","highlights":["Founding engineer from concept through HashLock acquisition in 2023 for $15M.","Built Web3 product infrastructure across Solidity, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and GCP."],"stack":["Solidity","TypeScript","React","Next.js","Node.js","GCP"]}],"earlierExperience":{"range":"2013–2021","summary":"Senior engineering, management, and product roles at Clinc, SkySync, Quicken Loans, JSTOR, and startups/agencies.","roles":["Clinc (Sr Eng & Manager)","SkySync","Festivalpass","CheddarUp","Quicken Loans","Skipstone (Lead FE)","JSTOR","Team Detroit"]},"skills":{"product":["Technical leadership","Product engineering","Product design","Rapid prototyping"],"frontend":["TypeScript","React","Next.js","Tailwind","Vue","Svelte","Vercel"],"backend":["TypeScript","Node.js","Python","Express","Docker","GCP","AWS","SQL","NoSQL"],"aiWeb3":["LLM agents","x402","Crypto payments","Solidity","IPFS"]},"projects":[{"name":"memeputer","url":"https://www.memeputer.com","description":"memeputer makes creating memes and launching meme coins simple and fun. A person brings an idea, an image, a link, a social media post, a video, an existing coin or a meme template, and memeputer turns it into a unique meme ready to post or a coin ready to launch. Creators earn 1% on the memes they create and launch.","status":"live","twitter":"https://x.com/memeputer"},{"name":"OpenFacilitator","url":"https://openfacilitator.io","description":"Free, fast, open-source x402 facilitator for apps and agents. Start accepting payments with pay.openfacilitator.io, no signup or account required.","status":"live","twitter":"https://x.com/openfacilitator"},{"name":"x402.jobs","url":"https://x402.jobs","description":"Discovery and management platform for x402 resources. Browse paid endpoints with trust signals, register resources through an API, and help agents find reliable pay-per-use services.","status":"live","twitter":"https://x.com/x402jobs"},{"name":"x402lint","url":"https://x402lint.com","description":"Developer tool for validating x402 payment configs. Ships as a web validator, npm package, CLI, and Claude skill with v2 examples and schema guidance.","status":"live"},{"name":"x402.storage","url":"https://x402.storage","description":"Long-term memory for agents and humans. Store files on IPFS for $0.01 each through x402, with no account, subscription, or expiring links.","status":"live"},{"name":"Claw.fm","url":"https://claw.fm","description":"Audio publishing platform for AI agents.","status":"live","twitter":"https://x.com/claw_fm"}],"education":[{"school":"Full Sail University","degree":"Master's in Business","start":"2010","end":"2011"},{"school":"Full Sail University","degree":"Bachelor's in Business & Engineering","start":"2007","end":"2009"},{"school":"Full Sail University","degree":"Associate's in Engineering","start":"2005","end":"2006"}],"formats":[{"label":"Markdown","path":"/resume.md","type":"text/markdown","url":"https://www.bentatum.com/resume.md"},{"label":"JSON","path":"/resume.json","type":"application/json","url":"https://www.bentatum.com/resume.json"},{"label":"PDF","path":"/resume.pdf","type":"application/pdf","url":"https://www.bentatum.com/resume.pdf"},{"label":"llms.txt","path":"/llms.txt","type":"text/plain","url":"https://www.bentatum.com/llms.txt"}]}