Ben Northway
Owner at Pixelchef Consulting LLC
United States
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Top SchoolBen Northway is a pragmatic infrastructure and security-focused engineer with 12 years of experience turning operational complexity into measurable outcomes for enterprises and small businesses. As owner of Pixelchef Consulting and a former senior engineer at Splunk and Bitrise, he blends hands-on systems engineering, data-driven security dashboards, and CI/CD expertise to help teams reduce lead time and stabilize production environments. He’s built custom integrations and reporting solutions across diverse stacks (Python, PowerShell, SQL, .NET) and has repeatedly automated manual processes to save hundreds of hours annually. Comfortable both as a consultant and as a technical sales engineer, he excels at translating business requirements into scalable, auditable tooling—and once redesigned a vulnerability management platform that became a visible technical lead engagement.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business at University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (137)
backup10
webextension10
collaboration10
javascript10
file-sharing10
owncloud10
deduplication10
self-hosting10
php10
nextcloud10
constructor9
safari9
splunk9
django9
lti9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
northben/amelia
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:163 commits, 149 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 7 months
northben/search-resource-utilization-app
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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