Ben Johnson
Principal Software Engineer at Seeq Corporation
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBen Johnson is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with nearly two decades of server-side web development experience, predominantly in Java, currently leading platform engineering at Seeq Corporation. He specializes in designing and delivering hosted web solutions, guiding teams through incremental improvements in people, process, and technology—prioritizing trust and a "barely sufficient" process before choosing pragmatic technologies. His background spans production work in iOS and Ruby on Rails and early-career experience across Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, Lotus Notes, and PHP, giving him broad perspective on legacy-to-modern migrations. Ben has led major Java-based workflow, document, and content management initiatives and once launched a corporate intranet that became central to company culture. Based in Minnesota, he combines hands-on architecture with team coaching and a focus on efficient, quality outcomes. A habit not obvious from titles: he routinely favors minimal viable processes that empower teams to move fast without sacrificing reliability.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS (partial) Computer Science, MS (partial) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBA Physics Computer Science, BA Physics Computer Science at St. Olaf College
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Github Skills (27)
nspredicate9
uitableview9
coredata9
activerecord6
nsfetchedresultscontroller6
oauth6
ruby-on-rails6
state-machine6
iphone6
ruby6
omniauth6
google-calendar-api6
jsinterop4
client-library3
sdk3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deafgreatdane/gdp-backend
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
deafgreatdane/google_oauth_calendar
Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:5 commits in 6 months
bootstrappingcalendarcalendars
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