Benjamin Tessem
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Tessem is a hands-on software leader and co-founder with eight years of experience building full-stack web platforms and SaaS infrastructure. He has led teams of up to 11 developers at BYU Life Sciences, managing large web portfolios, complex migrations, and the underlying DevOps stack including Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and Azure. Equally comfortable in TypeScript/React and backend languages like Python and C#/.NET, he thrives on turning ambiguous problems into production-grade systems. As CTO of Pliye and co-founder of Altruvia, he’s built platform infrastructure from the ground up and balanced product delivery with team mentorship. Currently completing a BS in Computer Science at BYU, he pairs academic growth with practical research and applied engineering roles. An early adopter of cloud-native practices, he brings a pragmatic blend of startup grit and institutional-scale reliability.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Senior at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (16)
medium10
redux9
cydia9
django9
django-rest-framework9
javascript8
docker8
nodejs8
angular8
react8
typescript7
installer4
react-calendar4
react-component3
react-native1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjamin-tessem/react-resource-timeline
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
A small react component to render events on a timeline
Contributions:2 releases, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 day
calendar-componentreactreact-calendarreact-componenttimeline-component
benjamin-tessem/startup
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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