James Bendig
Carol Stream, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Bendig is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience spanning software engineering, IoT, and SaaS. As Staff Technical Manager and Technical Product Manager at Marmon Foodservice Technologies, he has led SaaS scalability, uptime, and a customer-experience transformation that contributed to a 340% increase in subscribers and higher ARR, while preparing the platform for 100x growth. He excels at aligning technical strategy with business goals, driving cross-functional programs, and delivering device-to-cloud solutions, including POS integrations and computer vision initiatives that unlocked new $30M accounts. Previously, he built and led multi-disciplinary teams of up to 10 across embedded, web, ML, and PM, and steered international collaborations and mergers to harmonize development practices. His open-source mindset is evidenced by contributions to Rust's cargo test suite, strengthening reliability of a core package manager. Based in the Chicago area, he combines hands-on software engineering with strategic product leadership, and has founded ventures that sharpen performance and user-focused product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
rust10
cargo10
package-management10
test-automation10
testing10
feature-flags9
command-line-interface9
build-system8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/cargo
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James's contributions center around enhancing and expanding the testing suite for the Cargo package manager. They added new tests for feature flags, dependency features, and installation scenarios, ensuring correct behavior across various configurations. The user also addressed existing test failures, including those related to nightly builds and dependency feature interactions, thereby improving the reliability and coverage of the project's test infrastructure. Their work focused on validating the correct behavior of the package manager.
rustpackage-managercargo
jbendig/Sudoku-Solver-AR
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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