Ben West

Architect & Execution Expert

Summary

I am a Strategic Technical Professional relentlessly focused on helping people, teams, and companies achieve more than they thought possible through providing visionary execution and by going above and beyond when needed. Energized by conquering complex challenges and fueled by taking in new information, making critical decisions, I am self-motivated and able to hit the ground running, regardless of the domain. Combine solid technical abilities, business acumen, and relationship building skills to products and solutions efficiently tailored to real world customer success.

Experience

Staff Developer – EZ Pump • Contract – 2023 to 2024

EZ Pump is a 2-sided marketplace for concrete service providers and concrete consumers, contractors, etc.

  • API-driven Architecture
  • CSS
  • Capacitor
  • Cloudflare pages
  • Code Signing (Apple, Google, and Microsoft)
  • Communication
  • Deployment
  • HTML
  • Ionic
  • JWT
  • JavaScript
  • Mobile Applications
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PostgreSQL
  • RESTful Web Services
  • React.js
  • Redux.js
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • Stripe
  • Version Control
  • Vite.js
  • Websockets

Staff Developer – Xybix • Contract – 2021 to 2024

Xybix makes a complete desk environment solutions designed to optimize the comfort of dispatchers and others who spend critical hours at their desk. Designed to maximize comfort and minimize repetitive stress, the Xybix Axys controller keeps your temperature moderated, your lighting serene, and supports visual communication within the dispatch center.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Implemented hardware/software integration for complex hardware control device
  • .NET Framework
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • C#
  • Code Signing (Apple, Google, and Microsoft)
  • Communication
  • Hardware Integration
  • Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM)
  • Software Architecture
  • Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • Xamarin

Staff Developer – ASPCA • Contract – 2018 to 2024

Transitioned management from prior client Watershed Animal Fund: listing marketplace for companion and casual riding horses.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Rebuilt for-profit marketplace as non-profit market for multiple constituents
  • Built customer relationship management for site members engaging with site members
  • Created CVS upload and API poll endpoints to ingest data from external sources
  • Created API for re-distribution of data to other web resources
  • API-driven Architecture
  • AWS
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS
  • Elastic Search
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Intensive Mentorship
  • JavaScript
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PostgreSQL
  • RESTful Web Services
  • React.js
  • Redux.js
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQL
  • Software Architecture
  • Systems Design
  • Version Control
  • jQuery

Staff Developer – Magnum Piering • Contract – 2016 to present

Adapted hybrid web and mobile application from existing spreadsheet tools for calculating engineered loads for key engineering product.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Managed software architecture and design
  • Major Testing transition from cypress to playwright
  • Transition to Redux
  • Apache Cordova
  • API-driven Architecture
  • AWS
  • Capacitor
  • Cloudflare pages
  • Code Signing
  • CSS
  • Cypress
  • Deployment
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Ionic
  • JavaScript
  • JWT
  • Mocha
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Playwright
  • PostgreSQL
  • React.js
  • Redux.js
  • RESTful Web Services
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • SQL
  • Version Control

Staff Developer – Furniture For Life / FIUS Distributors • Contract – 2016 to 2022

Developed Salesforce-integrated distributor and customer support portal

Key Accomplishments:

  • Built Salesforce modeling architecture
  • Created shipment tracking estimator
  • AWS
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby
  • Salesforce APEX
  • Yootheme UIKit

Software Architect – Sentral • Contract – 2021 to 2022

Sentral is a short and long-term rental and booking company

  • API-driven Architecture
  • Elixir
  • Entrata API
  • Golang
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Guesty API
  • Phoenix
  • PostgreSQL
  • React.js
  • Software Architecture
  • SSL
  • StayNTouch API
  • Yardi API

Software Architect – Plan to Eat • Contract – 2015 to present

Plan to eat is a shopping list, meal planning and recipe book app.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Migrated from Legacy Framework
  • Added Test Suite to Legacy Application
  • Migrated from outdated Language runtime
  • Extracted Services and Implemented REST API
  • Implemented State of the Art React/Redux Implementation
  • Designed bilateral cache management for offline application
  • Long-term ongoing maintenance of Hybrid mobile app
  • Apache Cordova
  • API-driven Architecture
  • Apple Pay
  • Capacitor
  • Cloudflare pages
  • Code Signing
  • CSS
  • Cypress
  • Elastic Search
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Intensive Mentorship
  • JavaScript
  • JWT
  • Mocha
  • MySQL
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • React.js
  • Redux.js
  • RESTful Web Services
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • SQL
  • Stripe
  • Version Control

Staff Engineer – Gametree • Contract – 2022 to 2023

A Social platform with a game and values-matching algorithm.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Improved real-time communication implementation
  • Rearchitected social logins to support integration into CurseForge
  • Implemented Proof-of-concept realtime video via WebRTC and Websockets
  • CSS
  • Communication
  • CurseForge
  • Cypress
  • Deployment
  • Github
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • HTML
  • JWT
  • JavaScript
  • Linux
  • Mobile Applications
  • MongoDB
  • Netlify
  • Node.js
  • RESTful Web Services
  • React.js
  • Realtime Video
  • Redux.js
  • SSL
  • Software Architecture
  • Version Control
  • WebRTC
  • Websockets

Staff Engineer – UL/UL Solutions/Homer Energy • Contract – Start to Finish

Digital Software sales and delivery platform for enterprise subscription software. UL Acquired Homer Energy, a power grid modeling and management tool in 2020.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Assisted payments platform transition
  • Handled ongoing system needs and improvements in legacy codebase
  • GoToWebinar Integration
  • Added new staging instances and migrated to a new deployment as part of payments transition
  • API-driven Architecture
  • AWS
  • AWS AIM Management
  • CSS
  • Communication
  • Deployment
  • Fastspring
  • Github
  • Intensive Mentorship
  • JavaScript
  • Linux
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQL
  • SQL Views
  • SSL
  • Software Architecture
  • Version Control

Staff Engineer – Bullseye for Schools • Contract – 2019 to 2023

An innovative product for educators to help them improve, through rubric-based qualitative evaluation and tracking over time. Customize key performance standards and use Bullseye's easy entry tools to quickly score and annotate specific teachable opportunities. Track goals and progress over time and help make teachers the best they can be.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Managed reporting performance for large datasets of qualitative data presented in aggregate across a wide range of slices
  • Improved note entry to support greater richness and customized entry to allow inline tagging of specific comments for easy access later
  • Supervised improvement to streamline year-to-year data management
  • AWS
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS
  • Communication
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Heroku
  • JavaScript
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQL
  • SQL Views
  • Systems Design
  • TinyMCE
  • Version Control
  • Vue.js

Staff Engineer – Vetmeasure • Contract – 2017 to 2023

Vet Measure is a company focused on improving veterinary care and veterinary-client relations through wearables for the animal market. Vet Measure developed an animal monitoring harness in partnership with Sapien LLC, a research and development company with expertise in embedded systems, app development, wearable electronics, and biometric devices.

  • AWS
  • Apache Cordova
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • Bootstrap
  • Bower
  • Business Management
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Capacitor
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Firmware
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Heroku
  • JavaScript
  • Mocha
  • One Signal
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • RESTful Web Services
  • React.js
  • Redux.js
  • SQL
  • Software Architecture
  • Systems Design
  • Twilio
  • Version Control

Strategic Advisor – TurboTenant – 2015 to 2016

Built and integrated tenant application tooling for small-scale (<=15) property investors, utilizing information from TransUnion.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Rapid Delivery Timelines
  • Ongoing cost-of-delivery management
  • ACH Implementation via multiple vendors
  • Fraud management dashboard
  • AWS
  • CSS
  • Communication
  • Github
  • HTML
  • Heroku
  • JavaScript
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PostgreSQL
  • React.js
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • Transunion
  • Twilio
  • Version Control
  • XML Generation

President – Radial Development Group • Owner – 2015 to 2024

Radial builds solutions on top of the most stable, popular web and mobile tech stacks to deliver functional, valuable solutions to clients. Key clients include start-ups, engineering companies, e-commerce businesses, education, and not-for-profit companies across broad industries.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Hired up to 40 employees and managed 20 team members at any given time. Focused on hiring for cultural fit and willingness to ask questions as opposed to only considering previous experience or education. Led efforts to increase diversity in hiring and maintained an iron-clad policy of pay equity and agency for all.
  • Spearheaded recruitment, talent management, and compensation processes with a focus on hiring from boot camps and self-taught developers which became a valuable differentiator in the industry. Learning to layer junior developers with more experienced talent fostered a culture of learning, support, and mentoring while lowering compensation costs, creating equity, increasing retention, and building a solid talent pool.
  • Developed a value-driven plan for aligning operations, marketing, and sales; this value-based approach became the foundation for realizing the potential of the organization and ensuring that everyone was going in the right direction.
  • Initiated a company philosophy that honored the benefits of conflict; provided ongoing coaching to support staff and managers in having difficult conversations in a safe and respectful manner.
  • Conducted weekly “retrospectives” to keep managers aware of issues and bottlenecks being experienced by their team members.
  • Promoted a Director of Engineering (DOE) to conduct regular one on one meetings with technical staff to ensure projects were managed on time, on target, and to ultimately foster strong customer satisfaction.
  • Continually worked with founding partner and DOE to understand and assess organizational risk with a future-forward focus on planning for success and failure while scaling for growth; on the micro level, this same approach enabled staff to take risks, solve problems, and learn from mistakes within the scope of their roles which strengthened the culture of innovation, trust, and empowerment.
  • Utilized a modified version of scrum methodology to identify and address key customer facing deliverables every two weeks ensuring consistent, measurable progress. The process kept the focus on delivery while also addressing dynamic business needs, arising technical issues, and customer feedback.
  • Select Clients Include: Contact Mapping, Inc., Copper Leaf Creative, Saturday, Sentral, TurboTenant, Plan to Eat, ASPCA, and Bullseye.
  • .NET Framework
  • API-driven Architecture
  • AWS
  • AWS AIM Management
  • Adtech (SSP)
  • Apache Cordova
  • Backbone.js
  • Bitbucket
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • Bootstrap
  • Bower
  • Business Management
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Capacitor
  • Card Present Systems
  • Chai
  • Cloudflare pages
  • Code Signing
  • Code Signing (Apple, Google, and Microsoft)
  • Communication
  • Cypress
  • Deployment
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • DrDOS systems
  • Elastic Search
  • Elixir
  • Entrata API
  • Firmware
  • Github
  • Gitlab
  • Golang
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Guesty API
  • Gulp
  • HTML
  • Hardware Integration
  • Heroku
  • Human Resources
  • Inside Sales
  • Intensive Mentorship
  • Intranet Infrastructure
  • Ionic
  • JIRA
  • JWT
  • JavaScript
  • Linux
  • Marketing Communications
  • Mobile Applications
  • Mocha
  • Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM)
  • MySQL
  • Netlify
  • Node.js
  • One Signal
  • Organizational Development
  • PHP
  • Performance Management
  • Phoenix
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Playwright
  • Point-of-sale installation and maintenance
  • PostgreSQL
  • Process Development
  • Python
  • RESTful Web Services
  • React Native
  • React.js
  • Recurly
  • Redux.js
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQL
  • SQL Views
  • SSL
  • Salesforce APEX
  • Sinon
  • Software Architecture
  • StayNTouch API
  • Systems Design
  • TinyMCE
  • Transunion
  • Trello
  • Twilio
  • Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • Version Control
  • Vite.js
  • Vue.js
  • Web 2.0
  • WebRTC
  • Websockets
  • XML Generation
  • Xamarin
  • Yardi API
  • Yootheme UIKit
  • jQuery
  • pm2

CTO, Founding Engineer – Clever Clerk • Contract – 2014 to 2015

Supported technology for an advanced booking engine for local events and activities for leisure travelers.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Deployed to production and prototype test site within 3 months of initial development.
  • Developed key processes and standards for future developers/projects.
  • AWS
  • Backbone.js
  • Bower
  • Chai
  • Gulp
  • Heroku
  • Mocha
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Sinon

Developer – QuickLeft – 2013 to 2014

QuickLeft was a key consulting company that partnered closely with foundry group and was a staple of the Boulder tech community. I worked on multiple accounts with clients, including health information tech, hipaa, commercial real-estate, events-management, etc.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Contributed to sales pipeline for resourced but under-budgeted project
  • Self-acquired framework understanding of complex java-like front-end framework in 16 developer hours with less than 1hr of support from existing team
  • Bridged interdepartmental issues on front-end team to solve key unresolved blockers
  • Stretched to new tools and languages to support deployment of incomplete backend
  • AWS
  • Apache Cordova
  • Backbone.js
  • Bootstrap
  • Elastic Search
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails

Senior Developer – Altitude Digital – 2012 to 2013

Built high performance, advertising-integrated content delivery platform; provided technical training and support for development staff and management.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Built prototype node-based Ad tech SSP for testing SSP Configuration UI
  • Built SSP Configuration UI
  • Closed 6-month-old punch list in first 2 weeks of work
  • Ad tech (SSP)
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • XML Generation

Developer – New Life LLC • Freelance – 2008 to 2012

Freelance software development, IT, web 2.0, and content-management.

Key Accomplishments:

  • jQuery
  • Linux
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Web 2.0

Installer, Maintenance Tech – POSTech • Contractor – 2004 to 2006

Installed point of sale systems, did site survey analysis for future install, and managed cashless card present systems installation. Maintained point-of-sale systems throughout the mountain west.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Installation and upgrade of cashless terminal systems (×30+)
  • POS system installation=.
  • Postal Service Site-Surveyor
  • Card Present Systems
  • Communication
  • DrDOS systems
  • Intranet Infrastructure
  • Point-of-sale installation and maintenance

Education

IT and Technology Professional (not completed) – Nefarious Institution – 2002-2004

Course of Study:

  • Internet networking
  • Desktop Support
  • Windows and Unix Technology
  • General Education

Concurrent Enrollment – Aims Community College – 2001-2002

Course of Study:

  • Computer Science

High School – Union Colony Preparatory School – Class of 2002

Course of Study:

  • Journalism
  • Communications
  • Document Review
  • Thesis
  • Advance Mathematics
  • Foreign Language (Esp)

Skills

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