Summary
Ben Cloutier is an engineering manager in Austin with 12 years of hands-on full-stack experience and a decade-plus leading teams to deliver accessible, user-facing products at scale. He blends technical craftsmanship (React, TypeScript, Python, Java, AWS) with people-first management—coaching career growth, customizing progress plans, and running cross-functional initiatives that influenced company-wide practices. At Indeed he led international redesigns, component libraries, and a11y automation efforts that leveraged OpenAI to catch issues beyond linters, and now brings that mix of systems thinking and empathy to health tech at Atropos Health. Known for turning UX and accessibility challenges into measurable dashboards and automation, he pairs pragmatic engineering with event planning and developer experience improvements to keep teams productive and happy.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music, BA, Music at University of North Texas
Japanese, French, English