Benjamin Herson
Senior Software Engineer at Alaska Airlines
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Herson is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building resilient front-end systems and shipping customer-facing features at companies from Nike to Alaska Airlines. He’s strong in JavaScript and UI engineering, having driven major product work at Lytics (Experience Wizard, marketing imports) and stabilized test suites and legacy refactors at HealthSparq. At Alaska Airlines he parlayed contractor wins—including Hack-a-Thon leadership and Lounge Team contributions—into a full-time role on Manage Reservations. Pragmatic and quality-focused, he pairs a tester’s discipline with a creative problem-solving mindset honed over roles that ranged from inventory management to enterprise e-commerce. An analyst at heart (Dartmouth, cum laude), he excels at turning complex domain constraints into straightforward, maintainable UIs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies Major, Psychology Minor, Cum Laude, with High Honors, Bachelor's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies Major, Psychology Minor, Cum Laude, with High Honors at Dartmouth CollegeRuby & Javascript Development, Ruby & Javascript Development at Epicodus
Github Skills (25)
team-project10
triple10
in-progress9
react6
personalization5
ember-addon4
emberjs3
clickable3
analytics2
webpages2
css2
html-element2
custom-element2
ember2
sdk2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rallyb13/lobby-game
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:302 commits, 1 PR, 227 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reactteam-projectgamein-gamein-progress
rallyb13/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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