Benjamin S
Senior Software Engineer at Full Stack Blacksmith LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin S is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with seven years of experience building and scaling high-traffic web platforms. He has led small teams to deliver video streaming for 100K concurrent users and a news publishing system serving 5M+ weekly users, owning full-stack architecture with React/Next/TypeScript, Node, GraphQL and AWS. Comfortable across product, infrastructure and ops, he’s maintained 99% uptime using ECS/Fargate, Cloudflare Stream and observability tools like New Relic and Sentry. Beyond coding, he drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, and runs incident response and CI/CD improvements. His background spans rapid prototype projects from DevMountain to production-grade systems, pairing a creative BFA foundation with rigorous full-stack engineering.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Musical Theatre, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Musical Theatre at Ouachita Baptist UniversityFull Stack Development, Full Stack Development at Devmountain
Github Skills (18)
oauth9
rest8
full-stack7
wordpress-plugin7
authentication7
graphql7
wordpress6
github6
git6
api5
wpgraphql5
javascript5
graphql-api4
gatsby4
gatsbyjs4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
react-trainer/HackReact
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:97 commits, 47 PRs, 43 pushes in 14 days
BStid/Nintendo-Eshop
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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