Ben Bartling
Co-founder Platform CTO
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBen Bartling is a code-first founder and platform CTO with eight years of engineering leadership, currently co-leading SureCart, a headless e-commerce platform powering 100k+ WordPress merchants and tens of millions in monthly transactions. He has a track record of building revenue-generating SaaS from idea to scale via Recurium and prior startups like ZoomShift, favoring product-first, bootstrapped approaches over outside funding. Comfortable across the stack, Ben blends practical Python fluency (and an amusing HVAC affinity) with product and platform architecture to deliver managed backends without the complexity of self-hosting. His experience spans startup founding, venture studio operations at Northwestern Mutual, and agency consulting, giving him a unique perspective on both building products and helping others launch them. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on execution, consistently turning small teams into resilient, high-throughput engineering organizations. An operator who ships profitable software, he often surfaces overlooked operational trade-offs that keep platforms lean and sustainable.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Study Abroad at University of AntwerpBachelor of Science, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science, Finance, Entrepreneurship at Marquette University
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Github Skills (199)
hvac10
bac010
bacnet10
bacpypes10
ip10
r9
fuzzy-logic9
ipv49
darknet9
niagara9
chatbot9
energy9
python9
yolov79
node-red9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bbartling/easy-aso
Feb 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 104 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
bbartling/BAC0-GUI
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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