Summary
Ben Jakuben is a director-level software engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building mobile products, curricula, and cross-functional engineering teams. He blends a teacher’s mindset with strong technical chops—having led mobile app and SDK programs for global clients and run curriculum and instructional teams at Treehouse. Skilled in both agile delivery and large-scale program management, he partners with executives to define KPIs, staffing plans, and multi-phase roadmaps. Ben excels at remote team development, cultivating trust-driven cultures where distributed engineers feel connected to mission and to one another. He continues to sharpen hands-on skills in mobile and data science while balancing strategic leadership and hiring for high-performing, empathetic teams. Based in Mentor, Ohio, he brings a rare mix of instructional design experience and enterprise engineering leadership, having worked with partners like Google, Adobe, IBM, and Microsoft.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University