Ben Spoon
Software Development Manager at Autodesk
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Spoon is a software development manager in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping web-facing products across companies from startups to enterprise (Autodesk, CoreOS, AWeber). He blends hands-on front-end and full-stack engineering with people management, having progressed from senior engineer and tech lead roles into leadership at Autodesk. Ben has taught web development at the university level, which informs his focus on mentorship, developer processes, and improving team workflows. His background includes building marketing, docs, and product sites as well as mission-critical customer-facing systems like ticketing and donation apps, showing comfort across public and internal-facing codebases. Colleagues describe him simply as someone who likes solving problems, a trait that drives pragmatic, user-focused solutions. Based in Portland, he combines technical depth with a knack for translating complex requirements into maintainable, team-delivered outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Sciences and Technology, BS, Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
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Github Skills (71)
pods9
database9
rkt9
coreos9
home-assistant9
key-value9
consensus9
jekyll9
chroot9
distributed-systems9
storage9
raft9
instagram-api8
linux8
javascript8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spoonben/zombies
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
spoonben/critterpedia-react
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
because typescript won't do what I want right now
Contributions:22 PRs, 48 pushes, 21 branches in 2 months
typescript
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