Ben Dowling

Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of a leading IP data company.
Expert in API development and data management.
Significant experience in scaling tech products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data management and API development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DevelopmentData Management

Other Skills

IP address data managementGeolocationJavaScriptPythonMobile ApplicationsDjango

About

Whether you’re monitoring in real-time to prevent potential issues or launching an investigation into a compromise, collecting, maintaining, and organizing IP address data is a tedious chore. Your team wastes time, energy, money, and bandwidth researching IP addresses, and even when they get a hit, they often don’t get the details you need to take preventative measures or act on current threats. At IPInfo, we recognize just what a challenge it is to collect, store, manage, and update terabytes of IP address data, so we developed a fast, seamless process - so you don’t have to. Our API data is comprehensive, high-quality, and reliable, providing you with detailed information such as geolocation, ISP info, company data, type of connection, other domains hosted on that IP address, and more. Plus, at IPInfo, we’re constantly monitoring and auditing our data, building new APIs, and working hard to ensure that our customers have ever nugget of info they need to make fast, accurate, business-saving decisions - without the costly overhead of maintaining that data in-house. And the uses of IP data stretch far beyond security - you can also use IPInfo’s data to customize a user’s experience by displaying content based on location, predict chargebacks, or learn more about your customers’ habits or usage. With the right data, the possibilities are endless! Wondering if IPInfo could help your company with your IP data needs? Check us out at http://ipinfo.io or drop me a note here on LinkedIn.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Ipinfo

Founder & Co-CEO

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, WA

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.

IP address data managementAPI developmentGeolocationAPI DevelopmentData Management

Calm.com

CTO

Dec 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs · San Francisco

Facebook

Software Engineer

Sep 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Menlo Park, CA

Ads Integrity - stopping bad ads and malicious advertisers

Lightbox.com

Lead Server Engineer

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom

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

Jul 2010 – Jun 2011 · 11 mos

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.

Mendeley

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

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.

Smartfocus

Software Developer

Nov 2007 – Jun 2008 · 7 mos

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 manor research, siemens

Software Engineer

Oct 2006 – Nov 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

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.