Ben Alderfer
Senior Software Engineer at Expel
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Alderfer is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and migrating mission-critical notification and API systems, currently driving engineering at Expel. He has a track record of replacing legacy platforms with zero-downtime migrations, adding observability and metrics, and automating integrations with Microsoft Teams and Slack to streamline incident and communications workflows. Ben moves between hands-on refactors and platform design, having reduced documentation generation time and size dramatically and implemented database-driven authorization logic. His background includes mobile app work and voice automation from internships at WillowTree and MITRE, showing comfort across Android, voice assistants, and backend services. Based in Sterling, VA, he pairs strong academic performance in Computer Software Engineering with a pragmatic focus on reliability and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Criminal Justice and Corrections, 3.86/4.0, Minor, Criminal Justice and Corrections, 3.86/4.0 at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (56)
api-documentation10
documentation-generator10
swagger9
go-packages9
websocket-client9
openapi9
hyperion8
inspect8
csh8
slack8
sse8
interactive8
websocket8
css8
inspector8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BenAlderfer/hanibot
Jan 2022 - Apr 2026
RBC YA's discord bot
Contributions:2 releases, 23 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 4 months
discordbotdiscord-bot
BenAlderfer/RIT-Dining-Planner-Android
Feb 2016 - Sep 2019
Dining Planner Android app customized for RIT
Contributions:3 releases, 42 PRs, 144 pushes in 3 years 7 months
android-app
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