Ben Dauer
Senior Software Engineer at ContractSafe
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Dauer is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building and refactoring web applications, currently driving projects at ContractSafe from Watertown, MA. He excels at quickly ramping up, coordinating cross-functional teams, and translating complex business needs into simpler, maintainable technical designs. At Hometap he led data migrations, query optimizations, and architectural changes—reducing coupling in a monolith and enabling smoother transitions to SPA/DRF/GraphQL patterns. He pairs hands-on coding (Django, React, Python) with mentoring and process improvements, including developer experience, release management, and an import linter to reveal hidden interdependencies. Ben is comfortable diving into databases and execution plans to root-cause performance bottlenecks, and he intentionally unblocks engineers without removing opportunities for their growth. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he favors simple solutions that de-risk product delivery while improving long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Goddard College
English
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Github Skills (49)
trend10
peewee9
flask9
sqlite8
rest-api8
parsing8
rest8
swagger8
fastapi8
django-webpack-loader7
tac7
swagger-codegen7
django7
python7
openapi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bdauer/tasktracker
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch, 59 comments in 1 month
bdauer/hangman
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch, 9 comments in 5 days
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