Ben Dowling

Ben Dowling

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Founder & Co-CEO
Seattle, Washington, United States

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  • IPinfo
    Founder & Co-CEO
    IPinfo
    Dec 2016 - Current (9 years 7 months)
    IPinfo prides itself on being the most reliable, accurate, and in-depth source of IP address data available anywhere. Our IP geolocation API handles 40 billion API requests per month for 100,000+ businesses and developers.
  • Calm
    CTO
    Calm
    Dec 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 1 month)
  • Facebook
    Software Engineer
    Facebook
    Sep 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years 3 months)
    Ads Integrity - stopping bad ads and malicious advertisers
  • L
    Lead Server Engineer
    Lightboxcom
    Jun 2011 - Jun 2012 (1 year 1 month)
    Lightbox is one of the most popular mobile applications available for Android, with over 2 million downloads. I ensure that our backend can cope with the ever growing demands placed upon it. Lightbox was acquired by Facebook Summer 2012
  • Geomium
    Co-founder & CTO
    Geomium
    Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year)
    I've took Geomium from vision to reality, building an extensible and scalable core platform, with a client facing website and iPhone application. Being part of an early stage startup involves wearing many hats, and in addition to all of the technical responsibilities I also spend time on business, marketing, strategy, and other things that come up as part of running a business.
  • Elsevier  Mendeley
    Senior Software Engineer
    Elsevier Mendeley
    Jun 2008 - Jul 2010 (2 years 2 months)
    Joining Mendeley as their second employee and first web developer I played a critical role in taking the product from initial private beta to what is now the world's largest research database, scaling to hundreds of thousands of users, and hundreds of millions of documents. I was responsible for the adoption of many new technologies and implemented many practices and procedures which were key to us being able to scale up to the volume of data we handled, while ensuring we kept high quality maintainable code. As lead web developer I was also involved with recruiting new developers to the team, managing and setting the priorities and deadlines for all web related development, and coordinating with other teams.
  • Actito Previously Smartfocus
    Software Developer
    Actito Previously Smartfocus
    Nov 2007 - Jun 2008 (8 months)
    Primarily frontend JavaScript development, working on a large web based email marketing application. Also some development with the Microsoft stack, including C# and SQLServer.
  • Roke
    Software Engineer
    Roke
    Oct 2006 - Nov 2007 (1 year 2 months)
    I was involved in the design, implementation and testing of a wide range of software for a range of platforms, include J2ME for mobile handsets, Blackberry mobile applications, Microsoft Outlook addins, and Java GUI applications.
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  • University Of Southampton
    MEng, Software Engineering
    University Of Southampton
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2006 (5 years)
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