👋 Hi, I’m Ben Arent. Welcome to my little slice of internet.

I’m Director of Product at Teleport, based in Oakland, California. For the last 20 years, I’ve posted my work online, working on a wide range of products and services. I’ve created social communication products for the elderly, redesigned the rental experience, and helped secure infrastructure for the Fortune 100. For the last decade, I’ve worked in the developer tool space, in Product, DevRel and UX roles.

My strengths lie within the intersection of business, community, design and product. I thrive as a generalist within the cracks. As my career has progressed, I’ve come back to review what it means to run and host my own little site. I hope to be sharing more thoughts on the space and expanding my portfolio of events so I can better reach more interesting people to work with.

Aprés B2B work I enjoy staying creative with by hacking on AI, hardware, LED and IoT projects. I’ve a couple of stealth side projects in the B2C space as technology playgrounds and thought experiments.