About
Hello! My name is Ben, and I'm a product engineer that focuses on Apple OSs and the Web platform. I love baking and cooking with my wife. I'm a big fan of coffee, coffee-tech, sourdough, and all things fermented.
A bit more about my experience
I'm a software engineer professional with many years of progressive experience in software development and product design/development. I've demonstrated cross-functional leadership, mentorship, and active engagement with business and product management.
Some highlights of my career include:
- Assisting Twitter by delivering iOS / macOS quality improvements shipping several bug fixes per quarter to tens of millions of users and customers. In addition directly leading and contributing to core refactoring helping to reduce compile times on fully modularized code by 75%.
- Helping Shutterfly as a major contributor and leader in ground-breaking, industry-leading photo product web / native creation tools. I played a major role on building and shipping over 6 comprehensive personalization products.
- Played a key role rewriting legacy photo products onto modern platforms sharing code over 4 different operating systems and platforms.
- At the University of Wisconsin - Madison I helped advance linguistics, mathematics, anthropology learning and research through the development of several software tools.
- Experience in Objective-C / Swift, iOS, and macOS shipping numerous App Store releases.
- Experience with development specializing in front-end and web application development. This includes JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS, React and Node.js.