Ben Tilford
Lead Backend Engineer at PublicSquare
Kuna, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Tilford is a Lead Backend Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading teams that operate large-scale data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack applications. He has a proven track record driving cost and reliability improvements—most notably helping cut AWS spend from over $1M to under $500K while architecting extensible data harvesting and processing systems for petabytes of input. Comfortable across JVM, Kotlin, Spring, Ruby/Rails, Node/Nest, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), he blends hands-on engineering with vendor evaluation, POC development, and CI/CD/infra automation. As founder of 9Ten LLC and a repeated team lead, he mentors junior engineers, runs bootcamp programs, and moves legacy architectures to containerized, microservice deployments. Based in Kuna, Idaho, he combines pragmatic operational instincts with an appetite for research—having vetted 30+ vendors to balance developer time and cost—making him effective at turning exploratory prototypes into production systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Software Engineering, B.S., Software Engineering at ITT Technical Institute
English
Stackoverflow
136reputation
9kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
btilford/webstorm-settings
Mar 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:246 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
btilford/intellij-settings
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:250 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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