James Bendig
Product Manager - Digital Fountain & IoT at Marmon Foodservice Technologies
Carol Stream, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bendig is a product leader and engineer with ~15 years of hands-on experience (20 years in product leadership) building IoT, embedded, and SaaS solutions for foodservice and beverage industries. Currently leading Digital Fountain & IoT at Marmon Foodservice Technologies, he pairs a strong engineering background with product strategy to accelerate time-to-market, scale SaaS platforms, and drive multi-hundred-million dollar portfolios. He has repeatedly rescued delayed launches, introduced Agile practices to compress deliveries from months to weeks, and led initiatives that grew subscribers by 340% and won a $30M account via a computer-vision prototype. A founder and serial builder, he has deep experience in image processing, GPU optimization, and end-to-end systems from device firmware to cloud services. His open-source QA contributions to the widely used Rust Cargo project show a commitment to reliability and test automation across ecosystems. Based in Carol Stream, IL, he’s completing an MBA to further marry technical delivery with commercial strategy.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
rust10
cargo10
package-management10
test-automation10
testing10
feature-flags9
command-line-interface9
build-system8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/cargo
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James's contributions center around enhancing and expanding the testing suite for the Cargo package manager. They added new tests for feature flags, dependency features, and installation scenarios, ensuring correct behavior across various configurations. The user also addressed existing test failures, including those related to nightly builds and dependency feature interactions, thereby improving the reliability and coverage of the project's test infrastructure. Their work focused on validating the correct behavior of the package manager.
rustpackage-managercargo
jbendig/Sudoku-Solver-AR
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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