Ben Maakestad
Senior Software Engineer At IFoodds at iFoodDS
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Maakestad is a senior full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building products at iFoodDS in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area. He has a strong track record as a consultant across healthcare, agriculture, aviation, and enterprise clients, modernizing stacks from Java to .NET, leading greenfield projects, and mentoring junior engineers. Comfortable across back-end microservices, Spring Boot, Kotlin, and front-end JavaScript frameworks like Vue, he also brings practical AWS deployment and Elasticsearch experience. Known for improving test coverage and logging practices, he blends pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for emerging JavaScript ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Github Skills (3)
unity3d2
typescript1
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ultraDOOMslaya/FlowField
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 9 months
ultraDOOMslaya/SaltyBoyCharters
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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