Ben Herila

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Ben Herila

Engineering leader with founder and CTO experience building complex products and high-scale systems.

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Experience

2020–present

Meta · Reality Labs

Software Engineer

Technical lead across multiple teams

Led work across product infrastructure, real-time systems, engineering productivity, reliability, and high-stakes launches spanning backend, mobile, web, and immersive products.

  • Led architecture and execution for real-time presence and voice-calling systems spanning backend, mobile, web, and immersive products.
  • Built shared cross-platform infrastructure adopted across multiple large-scale app surfaces, reducing duplicate client implementations and long-term maintenance burden.
  • Led a globally launched account-system migration in close partnership with Legal, Privacy, Product, and client teams.
  • Led incident reviews and release operations and contributed to Meta open-source developer tooling.

2019–2020

Airbnb

Software Engineer · Internationalization Infrastructure

Built product and developer infrastructure for internationalization.

  • Built Airbnb.com’s language selector and contributed to right-to-left and sub-locale support and high-performance translation loading.
  • Created company-wide internationalization guidance and bootcamp material presented to new engineering cohorts.
Read the public engineering article

2015–2019

Underground Cellar

Co-founder and CTO

Co-founded and built a Y Combinator-backed B2B2C marketplace from launch through meaningful commercial scale.

  • Built the initial marketplace and the engineering systems behind it.
  • Built and hired the engineering and customer-success organizations as the company grew to roughly 40 employees.
  • Helped grow the business from zero to more than $1.2 million in monthly sales.
  • Raised multiple venture rounds and served as a board director during the operating role and for one year afterward.

2011–2014

Microsoft

Program Manager · MinWin and software packaging

Worked on Windows componentization, software packaging, and the MinWin effort to reduce the operating-system footprint.

  • Drove software-packaging work that ensured Windows could ship on a single-layer 4.7 GB DVD.
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Public work

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