Benjamin Kostenbader is the founder of Dot Foundry, a design collective and freelance incubator of sorts. He's solving the problem of agency talent churn by making direct-to-client relationships with some of Pittsburgh's best branding, illustration, and digital marketing talent.He's also full-stack web developer at Monjibram, his freelance consulting business which specializes in creating functional and beautiful websites for clients in various industries. With over eight years of experience in web development, he truly enjoys working on front-end projects in WordPress, Shopify, Jamstack, and Vue, as well as back-end heavy data integrations, OAuth, REST APIs, version control, and CI/CD pipelines.He ALSO has a strong background in education and foreign relations, including a Master of Studies in Classical Hebrew Studies from the University of Oxford. He has worked as a teacher, program developer, and project manager for the Seongdong-gu District Government in Seoul, where he received an Honorary Citizenship and the Exceptional Foreign Citizen Award from the Seoul Metropolitan Government for his dedication and success.Whew, that's a lot of variety! But life is an adventure, and if you're not living it to its fullest you're missing out.