Ben Dalziel

Chief Product Officer

Slytrunk, Carlsbad, California

• Own product strategy and cross-functional delivery for a 30+ person digital product studio, with final product authority across two to three concurrent programs.
• Repositioned the firm from engineering staff augmentation to integrated product teams, and built the Product function from scratch.
• Defined FanCapital's platform strategy from concept through multi-property scale: reusable identity, loyalty, personalization, commerce, data, and sponsor-activation capabilities over a Snowflake data lake, adopted across 10+ live products. The portfolio grew registered users 2,296% and direct-to-consumer revenue 12,249%.
• Led Williams Racing's evolution from a corporate website into an integrated global platform spanning web, mobile, live data, identity, loyalty, content, and sponsor activation, growing the registered audience from zero to 1.5M+.
• Conceived Adaptive Draft Rank for NFL Fantasy+, designed the recommendation logic and data behavior, and led delivery across NFL executives, engineering, design, analytics, and commercial teams.

Product Lead, New Ventures

Trash Panda, San Diego, California · concurrent

• Lead product strategy for an early-stage consumer technology business, hands-on across product definition, UX, analytics, monetization, integrations, and delivery.
• Rebuilt the company website through daily AI-assisted development, moving from product strategy and UX directly into working prototypes, implementation, and instrumentation.
• Launched web-to-app subscription purchasing across marketing, commerce, payments, account creation, entitlement, and in-app activation.

Software Engineer, iOS Architecture Lead

Slytrunk, Sunnyvale & Carlsbad, California

• iOS architecture lead for World Surf League and NFL Fantasy, including lead developer of the original NFL fantasy football iOS app.
• Built distributed, event-critical capabilities spanning streaming video, real-time scoring, draft and team management, analytics, and advertising integrations, serving millions of users.
• Led product design and engineering for Red Aloe, a HIPAA-context telehealth startup connecting nurses with private maternity and postpartum clients, building scheduling and in-app video consultation on GCP before remote appointments were common.
• Established the studio's remote-first operating model in 2013 and led its evolution as the company grew.

Senior Software Engineer

Yahoo! Sports, Sunnyvale, California

• Owned the Stats API platform and shared data services powering team pages, player profiles, schedules, standings, and rankings across Yahoo! Sports.
• Led end-to-end playoff and global-event products spanning data pipelines, APIs, UX, sponsorship, and localization, including the 2008 Olympics and 2010 FIFA World Cup across 24+ languages and markets.
• Converted repeated playoff-launch work into reusable platform capabilities, reducing annual setup from weeks to one day.

Software Engineer Intern

IBM, Hursley, England

• Contributed to Eclipse AJDT and core AspectJ, with code merged into mainline open-source releases.
• Designed runtime observability capabilities later incorporated into AJDT and AspectJ. Named inventor on IBM patent filings US20070124723A1 and GB0524112D0.