Ben Guzovsky

What I'm Working on:

Incorporating an education nonprofit with a mission to inspire student agency nationwide.

Helping operations teams trust their models for complex tasks

Building resources that motivate and empower high school students.

What I'm Proud of:

Building intelligent fraud systems at SafetyKit for Shopify, Visa, Discord, Etsy, and dozens more platforms as founding engineer

100s of interactive self-advocacy resources for students —  Doorstop Education

Sitting in on high school classes across the country to understand how trust forms in and around classrooms.

My open source, splitscreen prompt engineering tool — Prompt Octopus 

Silly recent projects like my joke invoice generator, splork.io, and love is blob

My digital chess teaching aid and my JS-powered productivity app, both built to support friends and my campus community.

A recent article I've written — Bot Poetry: Engineering Randomness 

Find my full product design portfolio here.

What people say behind my back:

"Nothing escapes his keen analytical gaze... He has immersed himself in an incredible volume of seemingly-dry historical sources and not only wrestled them into a clear and well-structured piece of writing, but also condensed them into a pithy but substantial interpretive formula... articulated with flair." 

• Professor Natasha Wheatley

"Having such a broad impact on the course of a project takes skills ranging from communication and vulnerability – such as reaching out for help when stuck understanding something – to the technical aptitude needed to understand and master range of difficult tools, from Amazon Web Services to python and the mathematics and statistics needed to make sense of machine learning. "

• Jaan Altosaar, Postdoctoral Officer of Research at Columbia University

"As a full-stack designer, Ben paid meticulous attention to every facet of the user experience. He fully grasped the essence of my brand and services, enabling us to create a site that was not only innovative and user-friendly but also resonated with my vision."

• Rachel Westlake, Health Care Advocate

What I've Been Reading:

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Experience & Education, John Dewey

The Odessa Tales, Isaac Babel

Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti