Benjamin Stockwell
Principal Engineer at Semafor
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Stockwell is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and UI-focused systems, currently leading engineering at Semafor after a long tenure at BuzzFeed. He has progressed through hands-on roles from software and web development to principal-level architecture and delivery, blending front-end polish with backend reliability. Based in Minneapolis, he brings deep experience in media and e-commerce platforms, having shaped product experiences at BuzzFeed and Best Buy. Colleagues know him as an "arranger and producer of bits and pixels," signaling a knack for both technical craftsmanship and product-minded design. He pairs a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Dakota State with a career record of mentoring teams and driving cross-functional projects to production. Notably, his background spans embedded and enterprise systems as well as consumer-facing media, giving him a rare full-stack perspective.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Milnor Public SchoolB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (35)
single-sign-on10
octopus10
authentication10
security10
aes10
oauth10
queue10
messaging9
message-queue9
nsq9
go9
websocket8
distributed-systems8
text-editor8
realtime7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjsto/quotoxic
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
quotoxic quote engine.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
benjsto/RogueTheorem
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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