Location: Austin, TX
Phone: 903-830-2348
Email: benjamingarrard5279@gmail.com
Website: bengarrard.com
GitHub: github.com/B2Gdevs
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/benjamin-garrard
DevRel that ships: demos, integrations, docs, and feedback loops that make developers successful.
$5M valuation — Founder/CTO (Colorfull)
100+ DAU — AI Photoshop plugin (Bashful.ai)
$200K/yr saved — internal tooling (Moveworks)
Summary
Builder-first engineer and founder who creates developer-facing value by shipping working integrations, clean reference implementations, and clear technical documentation—then closing the loop with feedback from real users.
Recent work includes production systems in TypeScript/Node.js and Python on GCP, event-driven integrations, Stripe onboarding and reporting flows, document ingestion + retrieval pipelines (Pinecone/Qdrant), and OpenWebUI-based workflows (OpenWebUI + Ollama + n8n).
Document-first execution: 500+ Loom engineering walkthroughs (Colorfull) • PRs required Loom videos for reviewability • internal Q/A documentation wins (Moveworks).
Professional Experience
Founder & CTO — Colorfull
Real-time logistics & ordering platform • GCP • Stripe • event-driven integrations • $5M valuation
- Owned end-to-end delivery: requirements → architecture → implementation → production ops → partner onboarding.
- Built event-driven workflows on GCP (Cloud Run + Cloud Tasks) to process partner events reliably with correct sequencing, retries, and operational visibility.
- Implemented Stripe Connect onboarding plus reporting flows for multi-party payouts; produced internal integration guides and runbooks.
- Ran high-stakes onboarding events with restaurant owners; debugged issues on-site and shipped fixes under deadline.
- Established documentation workflow: recorded 500+ Loom videos and required Loom walkthroughs on PRs for durable knowledge transfer.
Customer Success Engineer — Moveworks
Enterprise AI platform • integrations • troubleshooting • enablement
- Delivered customer-facing integrations and technical enablement across ServiceNow, Active Directory, Slack, Teams, FreshDesk, and NetSuite.
- Built internal Python tooling used by 30+ technical users across multiple teams; estimated $200K annual savings by reducing multi-hour investigations to minutes.
- Recognized internally for high-volume documentation and Q/A contributions in a Stack Overflow-style knowledge system.
Founder — Bashful.ai
AI creative tooling • 100+ daily active users • Photoshop plugin + generation backend
- Built a Photoshop plugin (React/TypeScript) integrating AI image generation into creative workflows for 100+ DAU.
- Implemented cloud image generation as a service with a Python/Flask backend on GCP (job submission, polling, results delivery).
- Supported local generation via Automatic1111 while preserving a consistent plugin UX and “before/after” editing flow.
- Built and moderated a Discord community to support users, collect feedback, and publish updates and walkthroughs.
Software Engineering Consultant — CGI
SQL Server + C# • performance • data systems
- Normalized and optimized large SQL Server datasets; improved application responsiveness and query performance.
- Corrected a mission-critical queue system implemented as LIFO instead of FIFO.
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