Ben Wheat
Lead Engineer at Humanly (humanly.io)
Bonney Lake, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBen Wheat is a Lead Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and guiding teams through high-stakes operational challenges. An Elixir specialist since 2017, he combines deep functional-programming expertise with practical experience in migrations, observability, and incident management—most notably leading Auth0 migrations with minimal downtime. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to people leadership, intentionally growing his management skills while designing processes that embrace failure and prioritize empathy. Ben has led platform teams, shaped product-to-technical roadmaps, and advised senior leadership on security and performance across startups and enterprise projects. He thrives on seeing both code and teams succeed, and brings a pragmatic curiosity born from cross-domain work in IoT, mobility platforms, and fintech. Based in Bonney Lake, WA, he pairs strong technical delivery with a focus on team health and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of completion Backend Web Development, Certificate of completion Backend Web Development at The Iron YardBachelor of Science (BS) Interpersonal Communications, Bachelor of Science (BS) Interpersonal Communications at Trevecca Nazarene University
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Github Skills (21)
scenic10
text-editor9
layout9
rust-lang7
liveview7
elixir7
salesforce-rest-api6
ruby-client6
erlang6
asdf6
gleam5
api5
rest4
rest-api4
salesforce4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BWheatie/scenic_layout_o_matic
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Layout Library for Elixir's Scenic framework.
Contributions:108 commits, 19 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 6 months
sceniclayoutelixir
BWheatie/baseball-api
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 73 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
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