Summary
Beau Watson is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building web applications, RESTful APIs, and rich front-end experiences, currently at Ingenovis Health in Upstate New York. A Purdue graduate, he has shipped PHP/WordPress sites, Go and Python backends, and modern React/Redux UIs while improving developer workflows and CI performance in past roles. At Petal he cut build times by a third, automated finance workflows with Lambdas and Retool, and promoted developer efficiency through tooling and shell-golf sessions. He explores systems-level languages like Rust in hobby projects and is planning to learn Swift or Elixir next, showing a continual appetite for new tech. Beau also mentors new developers and is a published novelist, bringing clarity in communication and a creative perspective to engineering problems. Off-hours he’s an avid nature enthusiast—birdwatching, snorkeling, and working toward a goal of camping in all 50 states.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Graphics Technology, BS, Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University
English, Spanish