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Ben Ede

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Engineering Director at Envoy
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Ben Ede is an engineering leader with over 25 years of experience scaling teams and driving technical strategy in the fintech, logistics, and edtech sectors. Colleagues describe him as an empathetic, strategic, and exceptional servant leader who excels at building high-trust, high-performing teams. He holds a BsC from the University of the West of England.

Outside of work, Ben is passionate about community and social impact, demonstrated through his volunteer certification with CodePath and interests in organizations like Kiva. He has also supported education-focused nonprofits like Horizons at San Francisco Friends School. His hobbies may include tabletop games or painting miniatures.

At Rightfoot, he championed an AI-first engineering culture, empowering his team to reduce delivery time by up to 90% in some cases.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Engineering Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Scaling Engineering Teams
He has a proven track record of growing technical organizations, such as scaling the engineering team at 7bridges from 0 to 30 people and maturing its processes.
AI Adoption
Championed an AI-first culture at Rightfoot by empowering engineers with budgets and autonomy to adopt AI tools, significantly boosting productivity and elevating skills across teams.
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Career

Work history

9-2025
Engineering Director
Envoy
10-2024 - 4-2025
Chief Technology Officer
Rightfoot
6-2023 - 10-2024
Head of Engineering
Rightfoot
6-2022 - 6-2023
Principal Engineer
7bridges
1-2017 - 6-2022
Chief Technology Officer
7bridges
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Education
1996 - 2000
BsC
University of the West of England
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