# Ben Duggan > CTO at Adaptive Reader Location: Denver Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benduggan My cross cultural and technical experience have given me a passion to use my skills to help solve world issues. I am pursuing a career that leverages both my technical and interpersonal abilities to make an impact in the world. ## Work Experience ### Chief Technology Officer @ Adaptive Reader Jan 2026 – Present ### Staff Software Engineer @ MagicSchool AI Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Denver, Colorado, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ MagicSchool AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Engineering Manager @ Paper Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote Paper acquired Readlee in 2022 because we were the best fluency product on the market. My team and I took on the challenge of integrating the Readlee product seamlessly into the Paper experience to support millions of students on their reading journeys. ### Tech Lead Manager (Exited through Acquisition) @ Readlee Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote As a senior engineer I helped lead our development team through a full rewrite of the application. Within 4 months we rebuilt the entire app and more with quality and flexibility at its core. I later became the Tech Lead managing and leading the engineering team up to and through a successful acquisition. - Partnered with the CTO to architect and implement a successful rewrite in 4 months - Pioneered our emphasis on quality which resulted in 100% branch code coverage and a comprehensive e2e test suite that runs on every commit - Delivered large scale full-stack slices of our application that serves hundreds of thousands of users - Led product for 5 months using a system similar to the Shape Up methodology - Following the departure of the CTO, I led the engineering team and managed three developers - Led the technical portions of the diligence process during the acquisition by documenting our systems and proving our technical aptitude to the acquiring company ### Senior Software Engineer @ Readlee Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote ### Senior Software Engineer @ HackerRank Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 HackerRank acquired Mimir in 2019 because they were drawn to two things: our team and our product. As a Senior Software Engineer, I've taken on ownership of new products, implemented internal tech improvements, mentored engineers, and collaborated across the company to deliver value. Collaborated with Product to develop new features in several large legacy code bases Became a Certified Scrum Master Overhauled local development setups by creating a CLI tool that has been adopted by the entire engineering organization Collaborated in creating Company Communication Guidelines for our transition to a fully remote organization Collaborated across teams and GEOs to create a vision for the direction of technology at HackerRank through an RFC system ### Full Stack Engineer (Exited through Acquisition) @ Mimir HQ Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Indianapolis, Indiana Area This role ignited my passion for being a product minded engineer focused on developing deep domain expertise to enable providing functional and intuitive solutions for our customers needs. Collaborated with Product and gathered customer feedback to bring features from conception to production using the Shape Up methodology Responsible for code reviewing every pull request produced by our team Collaborated with Sales to provide product demos to prospects and help answer any questions and guidance on if our product was a good fit Responded to customer requests by identifying and resolving misunderstandings or bugs within a short turnaround time Collaborated on designing the overall architecture direction of our products Hired two interns and mentored them into becoming significant contributors to our codebase ### Software Engineer II @ EduSource Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Carmel, IN I was sub-contracted to a Fortune 500 healthcare company developing clinical trial design and planning software. While there I worked on a large legacy application written in C# and collaborated with business analysts and tech leads to fix bugs, modify existing functionality and design and implement new feature sets. ### Student Team Lead @ Taylor University, Software Studio Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Upland, IN Team lead for an eight-student development team working on a web application for an NGO operating in Nepal. • Used Google Maps API to display location data for operating locations throughout Nepal • Developed a client-side budgeting module with Angular • Designed and built a REST API to transition our application to use Angular • Added Vagrant and Docker support to improve team workflow and increase build stability • Responsible for code review and release management • Migrated our application to AWS using ECS ### Freelance Developer @ Less Boring LLC Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Developed a web application that tracked loans in order to automate processes for loan officers • Designed and created reports using Python, HTML, LESS, and Javascript • Developed REST integrations with DocuSign and SmartFile ### Software Developer Intern @ JAARS Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Waxhaw, NC Member of a three person development team building a web application using Yii2 (back end) and AngularJS (front end) to provide automated service management for third-party services • Developed five REST integrations with services such as AWS, Google Play, Trello, etc. • Used Docker and Vagrant for cross-platform development environments • Used CodeShip for continuous deployment • Designed many pages using the Material Design CSS framework ### Teaching Assistant @ Taylor University CSE Dept Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Upland, IN Taught lab sections and graded homework for the first three intro classes in Computer Science • Aided students in completing weekly labs covering computation problem solving using Python. • Assisted students in learning basic web development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. • Tutored students creating database-backed web applications using Ruby on Rails • Ran weekly Computer Science study tables to assist students with any homework and projects ### Agile Developer Intern @ Premier, Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Developed an internal system to manage drug information and mappings to other internal systems • Gathered client requirements through elicitation meetings and usability testing • Designed a normalized data model with ERwin and Oracle • Wrote a Software Requirements Specification • Developed a prototype application using Java and the Spring MVC framework ### Media Services Technician @ Taylor University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Sound engineer and technician for campus events ### Software Developer Intern @ Domador Software Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Designed and developed a timetracking application in Xojo ### Web Developer/Photographer @ Dentonics, Inc Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Matthews, NC photographed entire stock and developed the front end of the e-commerce site ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science/Systems Taylor University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benaduggan - GitHub: https://github.com/benaduggan - Website: https://digdug.dev/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/benduggan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benduggan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22