Benjamin Kitt
Director Of Engineering at Alkami Technology
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kitt is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years in product engineering and more than a decade of hands-on delivery and people management. He has a proven track record of scaling teams and responsibilities—earning three promotions in eight years—and currently leads platform engineering efforts that power commerce, subscriptions, and billing at enterprise scale. Known for turning Scrumfall into fast-moving platform teams, he halved lead time to value and helped deliver products that contributed to well over $100M ARR. Benjamin is an empathetic mentor who has promoted multiple engineers into principal and management roles and raised developer sentiment and retention through deliberate culture and DX initiatives. He mixes technical depth (Node.js, AWS migrations, messaging systems) with vendor and product partnerships to accelerate platform capabilities. Based in Saint Paul, he brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to experimentation and rapid iteration while fostering a blame-free, learning-oriented engineering culture.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) MediaLab Arts Online media creative arts programming, BSc(Hons) MediaLab Arts Online media creative arts programming at University of Plymouth
French
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Github Skills (90)
linux10
systemjs9
php-server9
sass-loader9
cli8
angular8
nixos8
serve8
nix8
castle8
vala7
gtk7
pantheon7
e2e-test7
typescript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminkitt/serverless-microservice-guide
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 2 days
entangler/oploggery
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 months
node-jswatchernodejsmongodboplog
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