Benjamin Strawn
Software Engineer, Developer Portal Team at Paylocity
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Strawn is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building customer-facing platforms and mobile apps, currently contributing to Paylocity's Developer Portal using .NET, React, PostgreSQL and AWS. He combines a pragmatic focus on delivering business value with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and clean, maintainable code, often catching subtle issues during reviews. Benjamin has driven cross-team improvements—from mentoring junior engineers and simplifying designs to implementing encryption-at-rest recommendations for compliance as a consultant. His background spans payroll systems, message-based architectures (Mass Transit sagas), and hybrid mobile releases, giving him a broad view of end-to-end product delivery. Based in the Detroit area, he’s a systematic debugger who seeks continuous process and UX improvements that save developer time and reduce risk.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Saginaw Valley State UniversityDelta College
Github Skills (7)
cli4
codename4
ionic4
command-line-interface3
browser-game2
javascript1
browser1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bcstrawn/simple-angular-autocomplete
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes in 2 years 1 month
bcstrawn/shopping
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:78 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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