Ben Holmen
Engineering Manager at Zillow
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBen Holmen is an engineering manager at Zillow with nearly two decades of hands-on web development experience and nine years in formal industry roles spanning startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep technical fluency with people-centered leadership, having served as CTO of The Boutique Hub and led web teams at Lorman and DiscoverNet. Ben thrives on solving real problems with strong teams and brings a multidisciplinary perspective from a BS in Physics, Math, and Art. Based in Eau Claire, WI, he blends practical product focus with a founder’s mindset, favoring pragmatic solutions that scale. A longtime builder of web apps, he’s comfortable moving between strategy, architecture, and the developer trenches to deliver measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, Math, Art, BS, Physics, Math, Art at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Github Skills (59)
artisan10
css10
laravel-queue10
postcss10
laravel10
responsive10
php10
tailwindcss10
conventions10
slug10
queue10
eloquent9
browsershot9
laravel-package9
forge9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benholmen/kilopixel-controller
Sep 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
benholmen/defrag
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Disk defrag output for PHPUnit tests
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 5 months
phpunitdefragtesting
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