Ben Christenson
Sr. Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Christenson is a senior engineering leader with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering practical, scalable software solutions, currently leading engineering at Capital One in Saint Paul. He progressed from developer roles into product and technical leadership at Kinetic Data, where he spent over two decades designing and evolving the Kinetic Platform and later served as Director of Product. Known for blending hands-on architecture with product sensibility, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable systems and guiding teams through technical transitions. Ben’s career shows a steady trajectory from deep implementation experience to strategic leadership, and he brings an engineer’s attention to detail to high-level decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (20)
javalin9
servlet9
kotlin9
rest-api8
jetty8
java8
react6
frontend5
bundle5
php4
web-framework4
symfony-bundle3
symfony3
react-library2
openhab1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KineticCommunity/request-ce-kapp-admin
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
godtear-community/godtear-community.github.io
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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