Summary
Bentley Beard is a full-stack Software Developer with eight years of experience, currently leading development for 16 components on Cisco’s Crediting and Compensation team. He designs and maintains well-tested, modular, and scalable systems spanning Kafka jobs, Spring/Struts middleware, PL/SQL, and Angular frontends while driving modern software design and CI/CD automation in the cloud. Bentley also owns security compliance for sales crediting applications, translating DAST/SAST/SCA findings into actionable remediations. He has a strong academic foundation with a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee and a history of research and tooling work that includes translating legacy scientific code and optimizing 3D printing processes. Comfortable working across global teams, he created his team’s documentation framework and champions practical, auditable engineering practices. Notably, his background blends security-minded automation from a penetration-testing environment with production-grade full-stack delivery.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.74, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.74 at University of Tennessee, Knoxville