Ben Tatum

Senior Software Engineer

Michigan·mail@benjtatum.com·248-835-4816·bentatum.com·GitHub

Summary

Founding engineer behind StealthTest, acquired by HashLock for $15M in 2023.

Most recently led front-end at Typing.com, shipping product used daily by millions of students and teachers.

I build fast across product, design, and engineering. Currently focused on crypto payments, AI agents, and x402 infrastructure. Co-founder of hey.lol, plus a portfolio of smaller products including OpenFacilitator, x402.jobs, x402.storage, x402.eco, Memeputer, and Claw.fm.

Open to senior engineering, founding engineer, and product-minded technical leadership roles.

Portfolio

hey.lol

Crypto focused social media platform.

Memeputer

AI agent launchpad for social media automation.

OpenFacilitator

Open-source x402 payment facilitator.

x402.jobs

Visual builder for paid x402 workflows.

x402.storage

Pay-per-use IPFS storage for AI agents.

x402.eco

Directory of the x402 ecosystem.

Claw.fm

Audio publishing platform for AI agents.

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer · Typing.com

    Dec 2023 — May 2026

    Led front-end development across Typing.com’s teacher and student products, shipping software used daily by millions of students and educators. Built the teacher portal from scratch on a small cross-functional team, including dashboards and cascading district-to-student settings. Later shipped accessibility and progress-tracking improvements across the high-traffic student experience.

    TypeScript · React · Next.js · Tailwind · PHP · Laravel · Docker

  2. Lead Engineer (Founding) · StealthTest.com

    Oct 2021 — Dec 2023

    Founding engineer guiding StealthTest from concept to acquisition by HashLock in 2023 for $15M.

    Solidity · TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · GCP

Earlier: Clinc (Sr Eng & Manager), SkySync, Festivalpass, CheddarUp, Quicken Loans, Skipstone (Lead FE), JSTOR, Team Detroit · 2013–2021

Education