Summary
Benji Asperheim is a seasoned full-stack developer with 10 years of experience building business-driven web applications and APIs using Node.js, Express, Angular, Vue, Python, and Go. He combines backend and frontend expertise with database and DevOps skills—Postgres, MongoDB, Docker, Nginx, DigitalOcean, and CI/CD pipelines—to deploy resilient, low-downtime systems. As a longtime freelancer and former roles at 500 Rockets and atease, he’s shipped projects from video-processing pipelines with FFmpeg to Google Ads integrations and authored technical pieces on advanced databases. Based in Duluth, MN, he brings an unusual blend of software engineering and linguistics (BA in German), which surfaces in technical writing and a systems-oriented curiosity about code and human behavior. Currently balancing hands-on aircraft composite work with ongoing freelance engineering, he excels at turning complex requirements into cost-effective, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), German Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), German Language and Literature at University of Wisconsin-Superior
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at York University - Nebraska
English, German, Spanish