Ben Hardy
Senior Software Engineer at Prime Therapeutics
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hardy is a Senior Software Engineer with 16+ years building and scaling enterprise SaaS and IoT platforms, known for marrying hands-on development with strategic technical leadership. As an early member of a startup engineering team he helped grow ARR from $1.5M to over $40M and later architected a remote monitoring IoT platform that drove a $20M ARR increase and positioned the company for acquisition. He excels as a player-coach, splitting time between coding and mentoring while serving as the primary technical translator in client-facing engagements. His strengths span Java back-ends, APIs and integrations (MuleSoft, Boomi), modern front-end work, and DevOps practices including Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD. He has a track record of modernizing legacy frameworks to improve security and developer velocity and of turning ambiguous customer needs into scalable product features. Based in Minneapolis with a BA in Computer Science, he combines pragmatic engineering with product sensitivity to deliver measurable business impact.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Gustavus Adolphus College
Github Skills (53)
unit-testing10
docker10
java10
twitter-api10
database10
testing9
postgresql9
kafka9
java-server9
twitter4j9
jetty9
logging9
barrage8
server7
http7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benhardy/fractus
Feb 2010 - May 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 8 pushes in 5 years 3 months
benhardy/lilrest
Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years
rest-apirest-serverrestserver
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