Brad Benson
E-175 Captain at SkyWest Airlines
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Benson is a versatile software engineer and technical leader with 14+ years building embedded Linux, mobile, and real-time systems and a parallel career as a commercial airline captain. He has designed and shipped firmware-to-cloud solutions—leading architecture and teams at Trane and Jamf, founding a contract embedded hardware/software shop, and delivering mobile and web clients across startups and enterprises. A hands-on architect who moves between low-level C/C++ and modern Node.js or mobile stacks, he also coaches Agile teams and has served as scrum master and servant leader. His work blends deep systems expertise (including real-time and protocol stacks) with product-facing mobile and web integrations. Based in Saint Paul, he pairs a lifelong programmer’s curiosity with practical aviation discipline, bringing unusual resilience and operational rigor to engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Metropolitan State UniversityAssociate in Science, Associate in Science at Rochester Community and Technical College
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChiefPilot/F3PlotStrip
Feb 2012 - Sep 2015
Bite-size graphing and sparkline control for CocoaTouch
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
bitesparklineswiftiosmacos
ChiefPilot/F3Stepper
Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
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