Ben Ipsen
Principal Software Engineer at Glide (glideapps.com)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBen Ipsen is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of professional experience and a 20-year self-described practice as a "digital craftsperson." He builds resilient, cloud-native systems and developer-focused products—recently helping Glide scale a mission to "create one billion new software engineers" and previously architecting fault-tolerant blockchain backends and Rust smart contracts at Mintbase. His background spans full-stack front-end craftsmanship (React, Redux, fast UX) to backend services in Kotlin, Scala, Java, Node.js and Rust, and includes leading teams and cloud migrations at Nike and eBay. Ben combines hands-on implementation with people leadership and mentoring, having served as Director of Engineering and tech lead roles that emphasized observability and cross-team collaboration. Notably, his career began in interactive and performance-focused web work (motion graphics, Flash-era products) and evolved into modern developer tooling and distributed systems design. He brings a practical, product-minded approach to complex engineering problems and a knack for translating legacy architectures into scalable cloud-first solutions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Web Development and Management, Business, Web Development and Management at Champlain CollegeAEC Multimedia Production, AEC Multimedia Production at International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT)
Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (140)
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lerna10
subgraph10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stabledata/surface
Apr 2024 - Sep 2025
Hono BFF with Vite Client Services
Contributions:18 PRs, 135 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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stabledata/synchro
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 releases, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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