Benjamin Hathaway

I'm an engineer, and I've been the CTO of Mailprotector since 2008. Most of those years have gone into email security: software that should be hard to break and easy to live with. Twelve patents came out of the work, which mostly means I've lost a lot of sleep to edge cases other people will never notice.

Those unnoticed parts are the ones I care about. A feature left out, a screen that asks for one less thing, a thousand lines deleted instead of shipped. None of it announces itself, but you feel it, and getting it right is the part of this job I'd do for free.

Home is Greenville, South Carolina, with my wife Julie and our three sons, Lincoln, Nolan, and Easton. Julie chose the boys as her own and they chose her right back, which is the best thing I get to be part of. When I'm away from a keyboard I'm building something out of wood, on a pair of skis (I started at three and never quit), or partway through another obstacle race, wondering whose idea it was. About 174 miles of mud, and counting.