Ben Crouse

• As Lead Developer of the Offer Platform team, I create architectural designs, refine work items, and provide guidance to developers
• Participated in system design for the new vNext platform, including being responsible for the architecture of my team's components and working with the Solution Architect for cross-team integrations
• Participated in Instant Offer Verification by developing an architectural plan for my team and doing development work on our micro-services
• Co-leader of a cross-team project to improve Instant Offer scalability to 20x providing meaningful improvements in performance and scalability
• Planned and facilitated chaos gamedays to find weaknesses in our monitoring and alerting, as well as provide hands-on support experience for the team

• Addressed a memory leak issue that caused regular downtime in Connect, which other developers were unable to identify the root cause of
• I was the primary back-end developer of Offer Hub and led the API design and development. My experience with service development enabled me to design a loosely coupled API that enabled us to implement new features quickly while minimizing the impact on existing features
• Participated in the development of Instant Offer as part of the small team before the product was publicly announced

• Architected and developed a new product designed to bridge integrations with the company's product and third-party systems
• Lead adoption of new technologies, including Node.js, .NET Core on AWS Lambda functions, and Selenium for testing
• Created pipelines to build and deploy code with a reliable and repeatable process

• Provide expertise on projects by using both experience and quickly learning new technologies to be productive on a project from the start of the client engagement
• Designed and delivered a solution using the actor pattern implemented in Akka.NET, capable of prioritizing a list of clients to call in real-time while responding to multiple factors that affected the order of the list
• Rewrote a legacy application for a Fortune 500 company using Node.js and Angular
• Developed serverless web applications using AWS Lambda and Azure Functions

• Worked directly with CTO to provide guidance on developing innovative solutions
• Participated in the full software development lifecycle as part of the company's small development team

• Developer on the Merchandising team responsible for all parts of the software development lifecycle, including participating in on-call support
• Took over as the primary developer on a large payments project (Match and Pay) and also took on the responsibility of the ESB development for this project
• Part of the initial team for a new development project to replace a paper process (Connect)
• Worked with the Solution Architect for the initial design of the project and presented to the Architecture Review Board

• Web Developer responsible for maintenance and new development of a document management system
• Worked with project managers to define business requirements before designing and implementing solutions
• Worked with many other systems, including the customer website, for drug test scheduling, reporting systems, and data interchange

• Web Developer in the Development department working with high-traffic websites and content management systems
• Primary developer on several websites and worked closely with the editorial team in charge of content
• Development done in ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC using C# or VB.NET

• Software Engineer in the Product Development department developing and maintaining Torrential Data's proprietary document management product
• Maintain several versions of the product, including client/server versions of the application and an ASP.NET web version
• Development was done in VB.NET and C# or VB and Visual C++

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA