# Ben Weems > CTO at Finch Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benweems ## Work Experience ### Chief Technology Officer @ Finch Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Engineering Manager @ Catch Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 Founding Engineer (employee #2) at Sequoia, Index, Forerunner backed Series B startup building an alternative payment method. As a Tech Lead Manager: • Mentor and guide the Merchant Team, supporting ~100 partner merchants and building to expand. • The team's surface area includes our SDKs, platform integrations, accounting integrations, marketing integrations, and Business Portal. As an IC: • Led Merchant Settlements, Accounting Reports, and our Virtual Card Integration that reduces integration time by over 50%. As an early employee • Developed deep knowledge across many domains and am called on to solve problems for a diverse array of teams, including sales, partner success, accounting, legal, and marketing. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on Google Cloud and BigQuery to build a petabyte scale distributed time-series database to support observability tools for Google products with 1 billion+ users and Google Cloud customers. • Developed innovative caching strategies to reduce RAM usage by over 50% • Optimized the query engine to reduce time-to-first-response by over 90% • 0 to 1 build of testing framework, including integration and end-to-end tests, to ensure reliability ### Full Stack Engineer @ DoorDash Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Full stack engineer at DoorDash during a period of hyper-growth. Worked closely with highly functioning product team to support growth of all three of DoorDash primary customers: Consumer, Merchant, and Dasher. • Built end-to-end data pipelines to support Merchant-side demand generation efforts, contributing to 150% YoY growth in merchant partners • Owned Dasher onboarding and integration for international expansion, leading to a successful launch and rapid ascent to #3 delivery service in Australia • Optimized Consumer Ads targeting, including integration of net-new data sources, contributing to 150% YoY growth in consumers. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA See description of subsequent tenure at Google above for details on role and responsibilities. Family commitments necessitated a temporary relocation from the Bay Area, prompting a pause in this in-person only role at Google. My remote-friendly role at DoorDash enabled continued professional growth, and upon my return to the Bay Area I returned to the same team and project at Google. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Airbnb Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Software Engineer Internship @ Genapsys Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redwood City, CA ### Software Engineering Internship @ The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ### Materials Science and Engineering Intern @ Stanford University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benweems --- Source: https://flows.cv/benweems JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benweems/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20