About Me

Husband, father, itinerant fool. Mistakenly and sometimes purposely off the tracks.

I enjoy — depth psychology, religion, spirituality, symbolism, altered states, meditation, yoga, movement, martial arts, forever getting better at surfing, soccer, music of the aggressive emotive kind, reading, video games, great taste in movies but others disagree, herbalism, gardening, camping and hikes, pretending I’m at one with all the animals, playing D&D with my kids, playing fetch with my dog.

I’m an engineering manager at Headspace. Before that, mobile engineering across design, wearables, and IoT. Before that, a researcher at the University of Cape Town, untangling how people share, present themselves, and make meaning through mobile technologies.

You can find me on Github and Linkedin, or reach me at hello@pierrebenz.com.