Spencer Schoeben

I’m an engineer. I’ve been teaching myself to code since middle school, and I’ve spent the years since building software—the kind that has to hold up in production, and the kind that has to feel right the moment someone touches it.

At Delphi, I help the brightest minds scale their time by turning what they know into digital minds people can actually talk to. Mine is in the corner of this page. Ask it anything.

What I really am is a problem solver. Engineering is how I do it, and design and product fall underneath that: they are part of understanding the problem well enough to build the right thing. Software should feel like a natural extension of a person, not a puzzle to solve. Good systems create sanity instead of chaos, so I think a lot about psychology, attention, and what it means for a tool to feel calm.

Away from the keyboard, I’m a dad. It is the best job I’ve ever had and the one I take most seriously. Home is Mill Valley, tucked under Mount Tamalpais just north of the Golden Gate. The rest of my time goes to exploring wherever I happen to be, learning things I have no business learning, and making people’s lives a little simpler and more enjoyable through the things I build and the stories I tell.

Trying to make the world a better place in my own, small way.