Ben Modayil

Ben is an incredible front end engineer. He's dedicated to excellent solutions and was a joy to work with. He delivered incredible work in the midst of significant ambiguity and was able to both implement creative solutions and help discover and guide the ideas that ended up in the product. He would be an excellent addition to any team and I'd love to work with him again in the future.

I had the pleasure of working with Ben on a strategically important project: Anytime Feedback, a feature enabling users to give peer feedback at any time, integrated directly into the review process. Ben was pivotal in designing the frontend architecture, ensuring it was both scalable and intuitive. His work helped us to drive acquisition and contributed to a measurable reduction in churn among customers with low engagement in performance tools. The frontend experience was consistently praised in early customer feedback. Ben brought a sharp technical mindset and thoughtful collaboration that made a real difference in the success of the launch.

Ben is one of those engineers that you never want to let go of. His has an infectious passion to improve user's and developer's experiences when interacting with software. Not only is he a great engineer, but an outstanding human being as well, always willing to lend a helping hand and mentor others. He would make a great addition to any team.

I had the pleasure of working with Ben Modayil at 15Five, where he stood out as a highly skilled and detail-oriented frontend engineer. He led development of high impact and key frontend initiatives, improved accessibility, and implemented static ID tracking to enhance data accuracy. Ben quickly picked up backend development as well, showing strong adaptability and a modern, tool-savvy workflow that kept him productive across the stack. He's also a fantastic teammate—always willing to pair, communicate clearly, and contribute to team culture through onboarding support and team events. Ben's next team is lucky to have him. I'd recommend him without hesitation.

Ben was an incredible teammate to work with at 15Five. Ben is a strong engineer who consistently delivers high quality work with strong sense of ownership of the product. He is a passionate advocate for innovation particularly in the AI space.

Efficient, conscientious, and thorough are several words that come to mind when I think about Ben. As a product designer, I had the pleasure of working closely with him for a little over a year at Loyal. During that time, we tackled everything from completely new feature work, to design system implementation considerations, to ongoing design-engineering process improvements. Throughout all of this, I was consistently impressed with Ben's professional attitude, acute attention to detail, positive and communicative personality, and ability to consider perspectives and approaches outside of the engineering space. On a more personal note, I knew I could always count on him to come prepared with constructive feedback and to suggest alternative approaches when needed to the problems at hand. While I'm sad to see Ben leave, I know whoever he works with next will be lucky to have a such a solid and well-rounded frontend engineer on their team.

Ben is a highly skilled engineer, communicator, and team member. He demonstrates the ability to examine problems from every angle and come up with the most efficient, optimized experience for the team and the end-user and then execute it beautifully. He worked with our users and mission top-of-mind. I think it'd be impossible to be on a team with Ben and not be proud of what you built, how you worked together, and how you grew!