Benjamin Van Der Veen
Managing Partner at Survant James
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorBenjamin Van Der Veen is a people- and process-focused technology leader with over 16 years of hands-on engineering and 20 years in the software industry, currently managing Survant James where he provides technology strategy, talent development, and pragmatic product decisions. He excels at clarifying complex problems, aligning tactical team work with strategic vision, and making technical trade-offs that keep teams biased toward action. Benjamin has led engineering teams across mobile, backend, and cloud migrations—most recently as a consultant CTO who rebuilt a frontend, migrated a backend to the cloud, and introduced CI/CD with >90% test coverage to rescue a key client relationship. He’s comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating intricate systems into simple terms, and has a track record of shipping resilient integrations and architectures under real-world constraints. Based in Bend, Oregon, he brings startup grit—multiple projects that “went nowhere” taught him valuable lessons in fault tolerance, state machines, and pragmatic product-market fit.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
Github Skills (73)
owin10
dotnet9
thor9
networking9
event-driven9
java9
csharp9
network9
http-request8
obj8
parser8
x-plane8
reactivecocoa8
postgresql8
jdbc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bvanderveen/fcs-platform
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 15 pushes in 6 months
kayakhttp/kayak
Jun 2010 - Apr 2016
Contributions:167 commits, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
dotnetnetworkingcsharpnetworking-libraryevent-driven
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