Ben Mcdermott
Staff Software Engineer at 1771 Co
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Mcdermott is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently delivering high-impact features for institutional clients at Coinbase while having stepped in as interim engineering manager for a year. He combines deep Salesforce expertise—demonstrated by co-founding 1771 Co, building two 5-star AppExchange apps and scaling them to 1,500+ users—with production-grade software engineering at scale. Ben thrives in small, high-performing teams facing ambiguous problems, where he pairs technical rigor with pragmatic leadership to improve code quality and quickly resolve cross-team issues. His background spans startups and enterprise environments, from Salesforce-focused roles at Intercom and GenomeDx to systems work at Coinbase. Based in Minneapolis, he brings an uncommon mix of product-minded entrepreneurship and hands-on engineering discipline rooted in an Art, Entrepreneurship and Philosophy education.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Art, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Art, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bmcde001/docs.gitlocalize.com
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 months
bmcde001/gitlocalize-blog
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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