Ben Johnson
Staff Software Engineer at BIGBADTOYSTORE, INC
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBen Johnson is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building high-performance, maintainable full-stack systems across .NET, cloud, and modern JavaScript frameworks. He has led teams and architected scalable backend systems for startups and enterprise SaaS—shipping evaluation engines, video-driven training platforms, and high-throughput manufacturing analytics that process millions of events daily. Comfortable from SQL Server and Neo4j to AWS and Azure, he blends strong backend expertise with front-end sensibilities from his dual Computer Science and Graphic Design background. As founder of Hadron.io he continually experiments with new technologies, and his recent roles focused on GraphQL, React/TypeScript, and .NET 7/8 in cloud-native contexts. He’s pragmatic about performance and extensibility, often tackling production tuning, diagnostics, and novel solutions for throughput and analytics. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership and a persistent curiosity in emerging platforms like React Native, Node, and NoSQL.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Stackoverflow
169reputation
7kreached
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Github Skills (67)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bensmind/TeamcityTest
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
VCS project to test teamcity build chains against
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 3 months
testingvcsteamcitychains
bensmind/RabbitRx
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Rx Observable implementation of a RabbitMQ consumer
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 20 days
rx-observablerabbitmq-consumerobservablerabbitmq
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