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Ben Romney

I build software, paint mountains, and run trails.

Ben Romney, smiling, outdoors in Utah with blurred green foothills behind him.

Currently

What I'm up to.

I'm a senior software engineer at Qualtrics, working on tools people use every day.

Outside of work, I spend a lot of time in the mountains, usually trail running with an audiobook. I also paint, meditate, cook plant-based meals, and am learning the cello.

Lately, I’ve been exploring the intersection of AI and alternative proteins. If you’re working in this space, I’d love to connect.

Projects

A few things I've made.

Personal projects I'm proudest of, roughly in chronological order.

A11y Lens logo: a white magnifying glass with a checkmark inside, on a blue rounded square.

A11y Lens

A browser extension that helps developers run accessibility audits and turn the results into shareable reports. It’s built on axe-core and focuses on making issues easier to understand and fix. I built it to make accessibility testing more actionable.

Romcat Labs logo: a glowing beaker with colorful liquid inside, framed by a stylized cat silhouette.

Romcat Labs

A small personal studio for digital experiments. Apps, tools, and anything else I want to explore. It's the primary outlet for shipping whatever I'm currently building.

Augmented reality view of a classroom. A large model of Earth floats above the carpet between the desks, showing Europe and Africa, with small pins dropped on its surface and three control icons across the top.

EarthAR

EarthAR was my master's degree project. A classroom-scale augmented reality app where a teacher spawns a model of the Earth on the floor and students move around it with tablets, exploring continents, oceans, and the planet's interior.

Paintings

Mt Hood at sunset.

I paint the mountains I've lived near. I painted this one in Oregon, in the last minutes of light before the peak turns blue.

Acrylic painting of Mt Hood at sunset. Warm apricot and peach sky above a snow-covered peak that catches alpenglow, with deep blue-violet shadows in the foothills and a silhouetted forest foreground.
Mt Hood acrylic on canvas

Writing

Occasional essays.

When I have something worth saying, I put it on Substack.

What I care about

The question I keep coming back to.

How do we reduce suffering in the world, and where are we not looking?

Factory farming sits near the center of it for me. The scale is hard to look at directly, and almost none of our attention goes there. Most of my donations and the direction I hope to steer my career follow from that concern. I'm also working to extend my healthspan, largely so I can remain helpful to the beings who don't have a voice in the systems shaping their lives.

Underneath all of it is Vipassana meditation, every morning and evening. It's something of a compassion amplifier for me, and it keeps me honest about paying attention, which seems to be where everything else starts.

Get in touch

Say hello.

The easiest place to reach me is LinkedIn. I read everything that comes in.

linkedin.com/in/bromney