Ben Munat is a Senior Backend Engineer with 18 years of experience building high-traffic, production-grade systems, currently consulting for The Estée Lauder Companies out of Portland, Oregon. He has a proven track record across startups and scale-ups—from co-founding a lean SaaS using Elixir/Phoenix and React Native to driving backend reliability at Weedmaps and a long tenure at Kongregate. Comfortable across languages and architectures, he focuses on shipping pragmatic solutions for complex problems and has been delivering software since 2004. His background in both computer science and music hints at a creative, systems-oriented approach to engineering and product design.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science/Music, Computer Science/Music at Hampshire College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Evergreen State College
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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