Benjamin Hendricks

I first fell into iOS in high school when the App Store was literally just starting. I've built several Objective-C applications and several Swift ones since the 2014 launch of the language. I have tinkered with Android mainly in 2013 while I was an intern at Google on the Android Camera Frameworks team, and have spent considerable time working on mobile back ends as well.

At 13, my science fair project won an honorable mention: it was a basic AI that played Tic-tac-toe in javascript. It was pretty comical, as I had manually written out all the “traps”, and some pesky 6th grader found one I had not thought of! At 15 I built my first PC, and recently I built my own Hackintosh. I have also experimented with the Raspberry Pi.

Most importantly though I'm a hard core Apple fan boy and have all the possible Apple toys. In general, I appreciate highly polished and well thought out products and design. On top of Apple, I am very curious about cryptocurrencies and following that space closely. I’ve even thoroughly researched if bitcoin mining would be cost efficient to reduce my heating bill. It was not, but now I'm curious about ether forging 🙃.

Through my experiences within several high quality teams building great software in Silicon Valley, and just growing up in California after moving there at age six from France, I now apply all those learnings in both my day job and my late night writings. I do lots of stuff, but always trying to pay it forward whenever I can 🖖.