Ben Schmidt
Software Design Lead at Sonic Foundry
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schmidt is a software design lead based in Madison, Wisconsin with 11 years of experience building and guiding engineering teams across web and internal business applications. At Sonic Foundry he combines hands-on development with team leadership, drawing on earlier experience as Lead Developer at the Wisconsin School of Business where he supported faculty-facing systems for 400+ staff. Comfortable spanning frontend and backend concerns, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance craft and user needs—reflecting his guiding philosophy to "have fun while being the best." A CS graduate from Carroll College, Ben brings a steady mix of product-minded engineering and mentorship, and a track record of turning prototypes and ideas into reliable production tools.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carroll College
Github Skills (31)
http-api7
npm7
package7
monorepo6
nodejs6
api-client6
rest-api5
rest5
api5
lerna5
eslint5
javascript5
typescript4
csharp4
dotnet4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
drbenschmidt/dirtleague-discgolf
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Disc golf web app for managing players, tournaments, and seasons.
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 58 PRs in 3 months
disc-golfplayersdisctournamentsseasons
drbenschmidt/insteon-client
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
client for interfacing with an insteon hub over http
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
golanginsteoninsteon-hub
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