Ben Firshman

Ben Firshman is a developer-tools founder and engineer building experimental AI products on Anthropic’s Labs team.

Career

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Anthropic

Apr 2026 — Present

Member of Technical Staff

Works on Anthropic's technical staff.

Replicate

Oct 2019 — Dec 2025

Founder & CEO

Co-founded and led the machine-learning model deployment platform until its acquisition by Cloudflare.

Docker

Jun 2014 — Dec 2016

Director of Product Management

Held product leadership roles during Docker's early growth.

This Is My Jam

Mar 2012 — May 2012

Developer

Epio

Jan 2011 — Mar 2012

Co-Founder

Global Radio

Jul 2009 — Oct 2009

Software Developer

Products & media

youtube.com

Replicate founder and CEO Ben Firshman shares his learnings on creating a thriving AI community

Video

clig.dev

Command Line Interface Guidelines

A coauthored guide to designing command-line tools, covering human-centered interfaces, composability, help, output and error handling.

Writing

github.com

JSNES: a JavaScript NES emulator

Firshman’s emulator runs in browsers and Node.js, with rendering, audio, controller input and save-state APIs. The project credits James Sanders’ vNES foundation and Matt Wescott’s JSSpeccy inspiration.

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Ben Firshman

Anthropic

Cloudflare

Replicate

Docker

Orchard

Government Digital Service

Poetica Ltd

This Is My Jam

Lanyrd

Epio

The Guardian

Global Radio

The University of Warwick

Products & media

Replicate founder and CEO Ben Firshman shares his learnings on creating a thriving AI community

Command Line Interface Guidelines

JSNES: a JavaScript NES emulator

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