Ben Plowman
Co-Founder CTO at Parkade
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Plowman is a pragmatic engineering leader and Co-Founder/CTO based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and web products. He’s led mobile teams and engineering management at Getaround and now drives technical strategy and product delivery at Parkade, favoring small, high-signal teams and rapid iteration over perfection. Comfortable across the stack—from Android client work and reliability tooling to PHP/Java web services—he combines hands-on coding with on-call and SRE experience. Ben is unafraid to ask the “stupid” question to unblock teams and prefers shipping functional, imperfect code to endless polish, a mindset rooted in early roles that ranged from test automation at Microsoft to product-facing work at Ning.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, Computer Science, BS, Physics, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-LincolnLincoln High
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ubuntu
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Github Skills (152)
python10
instabug10
testing10
ruby10
flask-restful10
automation10
flask10
client-library10
animation10
documented10
api10
rest10
virtualization10
vagrant10
flask-restplus10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
plowman/trump-coronavirus-timeline
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Trump Coronavirus Timeline - A history of what the Trump administration has botched with the COVID-19 response
Contributions:68 commits, 56 pushes, 1 issue in 2 months
trump
plowman/open-vehicle-db
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Open + free make / model / year / style database
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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