# Ben Aubin

> infra @ notion

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benaubin

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Notion
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA
building infra for agents & reliable background jobs

rebuilt image rendering 90% more reliable, 70% cheaper, 50% faster (now photo albums work!), built our long running job platform and led automated customer region migrations. observability for oddly shaped services. helped put html on the cdn

### Software Engineer @ Hotel Engine
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
helped robots sell more hotels (designed a pricing transparency framework that increased checkout conversion by 10%), helped reduce websocket volume by 38 fold, helped build security and account protection stuff that was very unhelpful to fraudsters (cut our fraud cases by 75%)

### Course Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States
Course: Computer Architecture with Prof. Siddhartha Chatterjee
helped students understand how computers work, did cursed things with C, used some minecraft redstone and looted my roommate's arduino kit for live demos (thanks julian)

### Software Intern @ DISCO
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
built an isolated search indexing test environment, ensuring the correctness of upgrades which cut spend by $2-4m/yr. then built some dev tools like an internal api discovery tool & playground

### Software Engineer @ Rootly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
helped a yc startup with everything from early infrastructure to customer support to building features like Notion retrospectives and handling tens of thousands of incoming webhooks that all arrived at exactly 9am PT every day

### CEO & Co-Founder @ Mintere
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
helped small businesses market themselves. hired an awesome team, grew a profitable company, also built a cms that was able to deliver dynamic websites to mobile phones in <100ms and added collaborative editing to a rails app

### Lead Developer @ Moolah U
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area
helped build an app to give kids real money skills through safe real world experience & parent education. hired & managed a tiny team and got a cool video from it.

### Digital Marketing Consultant @ Moolah U
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area
helped summer camp do digital marketing and increase conversion by 30%

### Founder @ PlanHW
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area
helped my middle school self track my homework, launched it publicly, got some users, got stripe subscriptions, fell in love with SaaS startups


## Education
### Bachelor of Science and Arts in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benaubin
- Portfolio: https://benaubin.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/benaubin
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benaubin/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-30