Ben Alman
Principal Enterprise Architect at Northwestern Mutual
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Alman is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and shipping web applications, APIs, and cloud-native systems, currently driving engineering at GovDocs after leading platform efforts at Caribou Coffee. He blends hands-on full‑stack work—from serverless architectures and data migrations to front-end polish—with a strong emphasis on engineering process and team empathy. A long-time open-source contributor, Ben has improved foundational projects like jQuery and Grunt and added robust test coverage for tools such as Cypress and grunt-contrib-less, showing both legacy-library expertise and modern QA discipline. He’s comfortable optimizing for performance (even down to assembly-like puzzles) and developer ergonomics, reflected in dotfiles, build tooling, and testing infrastructure contributions. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a pragmatic, collaborative approach that values how work gets done as much as what ships.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, javascript
Github Skills (54)
unit-testing10
json10
git10
javascript10
assembly10
web-proxy10
benchmark10
cypress10
jquery10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
jshint10
bash10
proxy10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cowboy/jquery-bbq
Sep 2009 - Sep 2010
jQuery BBQ: Back Button & Query Library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on the documentation of the jQuery BBQ plugin. Their commits reflect improvements in the plugin's documentation, adding examples, and refining the overall structure and presentation of the documentation files. They made changes to the examples, enhanced descriptions, and improved the layout of the documentation pages, indicating a focus on usability and clarity for developers.
queryjqueryjavascriptbuttonbbq
cowboy/dotfiles
Dec 2011 - Oct 2020
My Ubuntu / OS X dotfiles.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:565 commits, 6 PRs, 180 pushes in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on configuring and enhancing the dotfiles configuration for a bash environment. The commits focused on improving the bash prompt, adding helpful aliases for git and system commands, and integrating utilities like vim and "thefuck". Furthermore, the user introduced a function to rebase a topic branch onto a parent, showcasing an understanding of git workflows. The changes span shell scripting with a focus on improving developer productivity.
vimtmuxlinuxbashos-x
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