Ben Kelsey
Senior Software Engineer 2 at SmithRx
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kelsey is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native backend and full-stack systems from startup to enterprise scale. He has repeatedly driven architectural modernizations—most recently designing an event-driven, SQS/Dynamo/Spring Boot notifications platform at Smartsheet that turned hours of downtime into near-zero. As an early platform architect at ReachNow and co-founder/CTO at Variat, he blends hands-on coding (Kotlin, Reactive Spring, MongoDB, Kafka) with leadership in CI/CD and TDD to deliver high-performance services. His work includes migrating critical email infrastructure to AWS and contributing to open, cloud-based registry tooling while collaborating with teams like Google. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs practical engineering with product-minded systems thinking and a track record of shipping measurable reliability and scalability improvements. Notably, he brings manufacturing-floor automation and field service experience that informs his pragmatic approach to observability and operational robustness.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Business Management Minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science Business Management Minor at University of Northern Iowa
Github Skills (123)
kotlin-language10
dlna10
satellite10
streaming10
audio10
music10
kotlin-android10
java10
sonos10
audio-streaming10
kotlin10
injection10
music-streaming10
subsonic10
google-app-engine10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bfkelsey/airsonic-ui
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
bfkelsey/airsonic
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Free and Open Source media streaming server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
streaming-serverstreamingmedia-streamingdlnaaudio
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