Benjamin Bartels
Senior Backend Engineer at Bestow
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bartels is a senior backend engineer with nine years of focused experience building high-performance, cloud-native services and distributed systems for gaming, fraud prevention, and mobile platforms. He has driven observability and low-latency API design (routinely sub-20ms) and migrated legacy platforms to modern stacks using Go, Kubernetes/ECS, GitLab, and AWS. Benjamin blends deep systems pragmatism—network bridging for isolated casino floors, message-bus architectures, and Terraform/Terragrunt IaC—with product-facing work like video-analysis APIs and cross-platform React Native mobile apps. A collaborative mentor and cross-discipline integrator, he regularly partners with product, infra, and field teams to deliver reliable production systems. Outside work he’s a homebrewer, suggesting the same experimental curiosity and iterative craft he brings to software.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science at University of Nevada-Las VegasComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science (AS), Engineering, Associate of Science (AS), Engineering at College of Southern Nevada
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Github Skills (19)
prezto10
shell10
zsh10
cli10
bluez8
react8
golang8
homebrew7
raspberry-pi7
automation6
bluetooth6
go5
dbus5
state-space3
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminbartels/zymurgauge
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Homebrewing automation system written in Go
Contributions:18 releases, 564 commits, 163 PRs in 5 years 10 months
automationgogolanghomebrewhomebrewing
benjaminbartels/scoutbot
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
Discord Bot used to sync a Scoutbook calendar to Discord Events
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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