Cody Bender
Senior Software Engineer at PDQ
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCody Bender is a Senior Software Engineer based in Raleigh with 7 years of experience building high-throughput, user-focused systems and cross-platform developer tools. At PDQ he helped scale a data ingestion pipeline to support 350,000 remote devices and rebuilt a sales pipeline in Next.js/TypeScript to improve performance, testability, and accessibility. He brings a strong engineering craft: functional programming principles, clean and well-tested code, and practical accessibility advocacy. Cody’s background spans embedded firmware contributions to the popular QMK keyboard project—demonstrating low-level hardware integration skills—through to architecting Electron apps and cloud-integrated services. With advanced degrees in chemistry and finance alongside a full-stack coding certificate, he combines analytical rigor and broad technical curiosity to solve complex product and systems problems.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Finance, General, Master of Science - MS, Finance, General at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry at Appalachian State UniversityThe University of UtahPhysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (24)
keyboard-input10
c-language10
keyboard-shortcuts10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
keyboard-events10
c1110
keymaps10
keyboard10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
cprogramming-language10
atmel9
atmel-studio9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 54 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the QMK firmware for custom keyboards, focusing on adding support for new keyboard layouts. This included defining matrix configurations, pin assignments, and layout definitions in configuration files and header files. The user also addressed keymap configurations, and encoder updates, demonstrating expertise in low-level firmware development and hardware integration for mechanical keyboards.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
cfbender/Marlin
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform.
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 5 months
firmwarereprapavr3d-printeratmel
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