Ben Podoll
Principal Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Podoll is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of experience building robust, scalable software for enterprises like Target and Oracle, blending deep backend expertise with practical DevOps and automation. He specializes in Linux-based, JVM-centric stacks (Kotlin, Java, Groovy, Micronaut) and has a long history with distributed systems, database performance tuning, and asynchronous messaging at scale. Ben excels at turning complex requirements into repeatable, automated solutions and favors iterative development to reduce risk and accelerate delivery. His background spans geospatial and meteorological systems, retail inventory architectures, and handheld device integrations, reflecting a versatility across domains not often found in a single engineer. He holds advanced graduate training in computer science and has applied research-grade techniques (e.g., compression and high-performance cluster work) to production challenges. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep systems-level know-how with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, maintainable software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of MinnesotaMS Computer Science Physics, MS Computer Science Physics at University of North DakotaBS Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Stout
Github Skills (115)
google-cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
microservices10
gcloud10
micronaut10
rest10
bq10
search-engine10
kubernetes10
groovy10
java10
go10
gsutil10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
podollb/micronaut-core
Nov 2020 - Feb 2024
Micronaut Application Framework
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
micronautframeworkapplication-frameworkmicroservicesjava
podollb/vacation
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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