Ben Stein is a Product Engineer and full‑stack software developer with 12 years of experience building web applications, test automation, and thoughtful feature design across academia, government-focused engineering, and product teams. He has been a principal maintainer of high‑scale competition platform Gameboard at Carnegie Mellon’s SEI, helping run systems for thousands of concurrent users while standardizing tooling and architecture across a solutions portfolio. Comfortable spanning front‑end and back‑end stacks, Ben pairs pragmatic engineering with research‑grade rigor from his PhD work and HCI research, bringing strong communication and collaboration to cross‑disciplinary teams. Based in Champaign, IL, he favors elegant API surface design and readable frameworks, and aims to deliver solutions that meet organizational goals while surprising and delighting users.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Belmont University
Contributions:28 releases, 198 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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