Summary
Ben Johns is a Senior Backend Engineer with 8+ years building cloud-native, event-driven systems and a longer career solving bespoke enterprise and nonprofit needs. He architected a greenfield double-entry accounting and CRM platform on AWS using Go, Terraform, Docker, and microfrontends, and has deep experience with CI/CD, event sourcing, and distributed systems. Previously he led a technical consulting firm and guided Oracle Service Cloud integrations, giving him a pragmatic client-facing perspective and strong domain-driven design instincts. Ben mentors engineers, advocates test-first iterative delivery, and favors simple, maintainable solutions that scale. Based in Rolla, Missouri, he balances hands-on implementation with architectural leadership and publishes a portfolio and side projects at bennyjohns.com and github.com/benjohns1.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman