Benjamin Stockwell
Principal Engineer at Semafor
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Stockwell is a Principal Engineer based in Minneapolis with 10 years of professional experience driving architecture and delivery for media and consumer platforms. He joined Semafor as a principal engineer after a multi-year progression at BuzzFeed, where he moved from Software Engineer to senior and staff roles and focused on scaling newsroom-facing systems. A self-described "arranger and producer of bits and pixels," he blends front-end/UI craftsmanship with backend reliability, drawing on prior roles in retail and industrial software to bridge design and systems thinking. He pairs hands-on coding and team mentorship with strategic architecture, and holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Dakota State University.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Milnor Public SchoolB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (38)
single-sign-on10
octopus10
authentication10
security10
aes10
oauth10
queue10
messaging9
message-queue9
nsq9
go9
websocket8
distributed-systems8
text-editor8
realtime7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjsto/quotoxic
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
quotoxic quote engine.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
benjsto/RogueTheorem
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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