Ben
Founder of Dance Chives.
- Role
- Founder at Dance Chives
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ben
I am also the founder and lead engineer for Dance Chives—an application using React, NextJS, Neo4j, and Postgres that serves as a dance event video archive, aimed at unifying the knowledge of street dance culture. Explore the project here: https://github.com/BenTheChi/dance-chivesExplore the website here: https://dancechives.com
Experience
Founder
Dec 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Founded and launched Dance Chives, a web platform that archives and organizes street dance events and competitions for the global dance communityDesigned and built the product from concept to production, creating a centralized archive that connects dancers, events, and mediaConducted user research with the dance community to identify needs and validate product featuresBuilt a full-stack web application with event management, user profiles, tagging systems, and search capabilitiesOrganized and facilitated weekly open source contributor meetings to grow the project and communityCreated a scalable product architecture to support thousands of events and user-generated content
Education
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology
2009 — 2012
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Information and Computer Sciences
2012 — 2014
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