Benjamin Johnson
Founder, CEO at Particle41
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Johnson is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling software ventures, currently founder and CEO of Particle41. He has led full lifecycle product and platform development from startup API products to enterprise-grade SaaS, including founding and exiting Legalinc to LegalZoom and steering Dockworks through acquisition by DockMaster. Ben blends hands-on engineering (DevOps, automation, cloud migrations) with strategic product vision, delivering high-availability systems, automated legal filing platforms, and data-driven automation that cut costs and improved performance. He excels at forming high-performing teams and operationalizing innovation—evidenced by a 98% accuracy company name acceptance algorithm and large-scale automation stacks. Based in Frisco, Texas, he pairs investor experience and repeated exits with pragmatic execution, often contributing behind the scenes as a technical advisor to accelerate growth. Notably, his background ranges from low-level booking engines to modern cloud-native consultancies, showing rare breadth across industries and stacks.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Nebraska at OmahaComputer Science, Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesGrace University
Github Skills (24)
docker10
ecosystem10
golang10
container9
moby9
assemble9
go9
vagrant9
ruby8
virtualization8
ansible7
automation7
shell6
bash6
versioning5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjohnson77/devopsdays-web
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 3 months
devopsdaysdevops
benjohnson77/benjohnson77
Nov 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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