About
Benjamin S Powell, product manager building internal tools, platforms and automations. Bio, skills, work history and where to find him.
I’m Benjamin — a product manager who builds internal tools, platforms and automations. For the last decade I’ve shipped software that teams actually run on: dashboards, delivery systems, workflow automations and the infrastructure underneath them — currently for enterprise clients, previously as a founder (two exits), Head of Product at a licensed fintech, and agency CEO running a 30-person delivery team.
The through-line of my work: find the repetitive, manual, error-prone thing a team does every day, and build the tool that makes it go away. I work across the whole stack to do it — from user interviews to DNS — and I’ll use whatever gets the job shipped fastest.
The rest of my time I teach self-hosting. My YouTube and TikTok channels show people how to run their own software, automate their homes and build homelabs — and every project on this site started as something I needed myself.
Open to: internal tools / platform product management roles. Remote, UTC+7 ±4.
What I work with
- Product: user interviews · UX design · roadmapping · API design · front-end development and optimisation
- Platform & infrastructure: networking · infrastructure planning and deployment · Docker · AWS · Cloudflare · DNS routing · Firebase
- Engineering: most coding languages · mobile and desktop apps · databases · front-end performance
Find me
- LinkedIn, benjaminspowell
- GitHub, kingfisherfox
- Contact, Open the contact form
- YouTube, @benjaminspowell
- TikTok, @benjaminspowell
- Patreon, BenjaminSPowell
Work History
I lead data and product delivery for enterprise clients — internal tools and dashboards in daily use across client teams, cloud pipelines on AWS and GCP, and automations that save our remote team hours every week. I also take promising client prototypes through to production products.
I advised the team on practical uses of AI, with a focus on prompt engineering and turning model interactions into useful, reliable product experiences.
I advised the leadership team on product strategy for inclusive, crypto-enabled financial tools. I helped ground the roadmap in real emerging-market constraints, particularly Southeast Asian regulation, infrastructure and customer behaviour, while supporting partnerships and go-to-market planning.
I founded and led a hybrid-events platform from idea through launch and growth. I owned the product direction while building the team, customer experience and go-to-market engine, then exited the company in 2023.
I helped take a DJ live-streaming platform into the Australian market, advising the digital product, launch strategy and technology partnerships needed to create a distinctive live-music experience.
I led product development between customer needs, business goals and the engineering roadmap. I translated feedback into user stories, worked with UX and development through release, and helped internal teams and customers understand what we shipped.
I founded a sales tool that brought messaging, email and CRM together for Asian markets before Western CRMs treated chat as a serious channel. I led the product from concept to release and ran the team, fundraising, marketing, budgets and customer operations until the product was sunset.
I joined Thailand's licensed non-bank remittance provider in marketing, then also took on product leadership. I built the roadmap and internal product team, led eKYC and interface work, introduced clearer performance measurement, and helped move the company away from licensed platforms towards technology it controlled.
I founded and grew a digital agency to two offices, more than 30 staff and roughly US$1M ARR within its first year. I led sales, strategy, finance and client delivery while building an internal development team and raising private investment.
I co-created a real-world multiplayer first-person shooter experience that generated more than AUD 300K in pre-sales and AUD 1M across its 11-month run. I led much of the product, marketing, ticketing, community and partnership work, and worked with engineers building the custom laser-tag hardware.