Ben Leedom
Principal Software Engineer at HighRes
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBen Leedom is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and maintaining compiler infrastructure and language-oriented solutions, with deep expertise in graphical dataflow languages. Based in Austin, he has held senior engineering roles at NI and Bright Health and most recently led backend and platform engineering at Artificial, Inc. and HighRes Biosolutions, demonstrating an ability to translate domain-specific languages into robust production systems. He combines hands-on compiler maintenance with pragmatic backend engineering, often bridging the gap between visual programming models and scalable services. Ben’s long tenure in compiler work suggests a strong focus on tooling, developer ergonomics, and performance-sensitive systems beyond typical application engineering.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (11)
labview10
dataflow10
bzip9
gzip8
csharp7
wasi6
dotnet6
webassembly6
entity-framework6
llvm6
linq6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benleedom/benleedom.github.io
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
Ben Leedom's Blog
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes in 4 years
jekyllbenleedom
rebarlang/rebar
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
LabVIEW NXG plugin for Rebar, a graphical dataflow language with ownership.
Contributions:5 releases, 326 commits, 283 pushes in 1 year 9 months
dataflowlabview
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