Summary
Ben Ford is a seasoned iOS engineer with 16 years of experience building consumer and retail apps, currently shipping features for Sam's Club and Walmart eCommerce from Redmond, Oregon. He has a long track record of delivering production mobile experiences since the early days of the App Store, including leadership roles at agencies and startups where he led product-focused engineering and even founded a geolocation game. Comfortable across the full mobile stack, Ben combines hands-on Swift/Objective-C development with system-level thinking from prior web and server work. His background includes startups, freelance work, and building internal tools, which lends him a pragmatic, product-first approach to solving complex UX and performance challenges.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University