Ben Patalano

Early engineer on a newly formed team responsible for a multi-device, multi-platform rewrite of the company's TV games platform. Owned foundational systems spanning app performance, experimentation, and analytics.

• Owned technical design and delivery of foundational FireTV application components, defining architecture, rollout strategy, and cross-team interfaces to support long-term experimentation and growth optimization.
• Led a cross-functional initiative to address app load-time regressions during initial rollout, reducing startup times by over 60% and increasing trial signup conversion by 34%.
• Re-architected asset delivery and experimentation flows for the Roku app, enabling non-engineering teams to ship experiments independently without code deployments.
• Led a multi-quarter effort to revamp a core backend service powering the company's highest-traffic game, mentoring junior engineers and improving reliability, scalability, and content freshness.

Senior product engineer in the Growth organization focused on building out Product Led Growth funnels, metrics, and analytics for new self-service user acquisition and activation initiatives.

• Served as primary engineering partner on onboarding overhaul efforts, supporting experimentation through controlled A/B testing.
• Owned all technical and architectural decisions for the Shopify PLG expansion, deliberately constraining scope to enable rapid iteration, low operational overhead, and clear success metrics.
• Designed and shipped a production-ready Shopify application in full-stack TypeScript capable of scaling to all Shopify-originated user sessions.
• Drove Shopify app's MVP definition, prioritization, and stakeholder communication across Product, Design, and Executive leadership.

Autonomous senior engineer owning user engagement initiatives across web, desktop, and mobile surfaces. Notable projects include Discord Quests, Discord U, and Discord Home feeds.

• Designed and shipped full-stack, continuously integrated features serving Discord's global user base.
• Led short-cycle experimental projects from concept through evaluation, coordinating with Design, Data, and cross-team partners.
• Built scalable backend API systems in Python using Flask with strong guarantees around performance and reliability.
• Designed high-throughput data pipelines using Rust and Protocol Buffers to remove analytics bottlenecks.
• Mentored college interns and new grad hires supporting delivery of production features.

• Architected and delivered product experiments and features that drove more than 20% AOV growth and over 10% ARPV growth.
• Led cross-functional initiatives ranging from two to twelve weeks, establishing clear feedback loops and success metrics.
• Mentored engineers and helped define growth engineering best practices.

• Built and scaled frontend and backend systems for a two-sided e-commerce marketplace using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.
• Led efforts to decompose a monolithic REST service into targeted microservices while safely migrating production traffic.

• Owned and evolved the web version of a product customization app post-launch.
• Developed frontend features in Elm.js and maintained supporting Node.js and TypeScript APIs.