Summary
Brody Dingel is a Senior Software Engineer II with eight years of full-stack experience, currently focused on TypeScript/JavaScript at Bestow where he’s helping build an internal library that simplifies frontend-backend communication to make life insurance more accessible. He brings production experience across microservice architectures—including Node, GraphQL, REST, Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Docker, GCP, and Kubernetes—while also shipping React and Next.js frontends with a strong emphasis on type safety and automated testing. Brody’s background in applied linguistics and experience as a language instructor and research assistant give him a rare blend of technical rigor and clear communication skills, which he applies to developer tooling and client-facing APIs. As president of a small research company, he pairs engineering craft with leadership and product-minded thinking. Based in Ames, Iowa, he prefers well-tested, maintainable systems that have measurable user impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Linguistics, Master's degree Applied Linguistics at Iowa State University
English, Spanish, Portuguese