Ben Nordick
Senior Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolBen Nordick is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, user-focused applications and tooling from full-stack UIs to backend automation. Based in Knoxville, he currently advances assessment software at Cambium Assessment after progressing internally from software engineer to senior roles. His background spans academia and industry—designing auto-graded course infrastructure at UIUC, modeling and visualizing gene regulatory networks during his MS work, and creating a production appointment reminder service as an independent developer. An active open-source contributor, he improved usability and policy handling in the PolicyPlus Local Group Policy Editor, demonstrating attention to permissions, filtering, and editor UX. Ben combines rigorous scientific training (MS in Genome Sciences, BS with a 4.0) with practical delivery skills, often translating complex domain requirements into polished, maintainable tooling. Colleagues know him for bridging research-grade analysis and product-ready software with a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at Black Hawk CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Genome Sciences/Genomics, Master of Science - MS, Genome Sciences/Genomics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (15)
vbnet10
csharp10
compilation10
vnet10
dotnet-core10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
ui-design8
java6
linq6
windows6
unity-game-engine6
visual-studio6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Fleex255/PolicyPlus
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Local Group Policy Editor plus more, for all Windows editions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Local Group Policy Editor. They implemented improvements to file handling, including ensuring write permissions for downloaded ADMX files and correctly processing policies. Their contributions also included adding explanatory comments, implementing a filtering system, and improving the UI layout of the setting editor dialog.
group-policywindowsadministrative-templates
cs125-illinois/answerable
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Powerful solution-based tester for small Java or Kotlin problems.
Contributions:220 commits, 2 PRs, 84 pushes in 11 months
javakotlin
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