Benjamin Schell is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 17 years of software engineering experience building resilient, performance-focused UI platforms for both startups and Fortune 100 companies. He has led cross-team efforts at Salesforce, Okta, and now Slack to modernize front-end stacks, migrate critical services to scalable databases, and deliver reusable frameworks that enable other teams and external customers. Comfortable as a one‑person consultancy founder or as a technical lead in large organizations, he blends low-level performance work (including hardware-integrated solutions) with high-level architecture and product-minded engineering. He’s known for coaching teams through adoption of new capabilities and for creating practical tooling—such as a Slack UI test harness—that makes complex integrations reliably testable in production-like scenarios.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University
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