Ben Viglietta
Tax Preparer at BV Tax Services LLC
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Viglietta is a seasoned technologist-turned-tax professional with 10 years of experience and a long software engineering pedigree from Microsoft, where he spent 17 years as a Software Development Engineer. Now based in Redmond, WA, he leverages deep systems and cross-platform expertise to bring precision and automation to tax preparation and advising roles at Block Advisors and BV Tax Services. An active contributor to Microsoft’s WinObjC project, he improved ARM unit testing, thread safety and memory handling—work that reflects a practical, detail-oriented approach to reliability and cross-platform edge cases. Ben blends rigorous engineering practices with client-focused financial services, often translating complex technical problems into clear, auditable solutions. Educated at Cornell, he is comfortable moving between low-level code concerns and high-trust tax compliance work, making him a valuable bridge between software robustness and regulatory accuracy.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Cornell University
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
arm10
objective-c10
architectures10
architecture10
windows9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinObjC
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 45 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the Objective-C for Windows project by implementing and improving unit tests for ARM architecture. They added project configurations and modified the test script to support deploying and running tests on ARM devices via TShell. Furthermore, they addressed memory management issues and improved the thread safety of the NSProgress class, ensuring more robust performance. The user also performed various code corrections, like fixing printf-style string formatting and handling edge cases to ensure cross platform stability and improved the performance.
objective-cwindows
bviglietta/WinObjC
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 43 branches in 7 months
objective-cwindows
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