# Benjamin Lindahl

> Software Engineer at Included Health | Career Coach | Empathy First

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benjaminlindahl

Led integration of two complex systems with emergent properties in Google's core ranking code. Improved  developer velocity and development simplicity throughout Google's search serving stack. Created long-term value by turning overarching objectives into intermediate milestones that immediately deliver value. Led  cross-role planning and execution, approaching partners and stakeholders with empathy. Drove cross-organizational alignment with over 100 other teams under myriad VPs. Mentored and envisioned career paths with dozens of mentee engineers through personal growth and increased impact.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Moveworks
Jan 2025 – Present

### Coach and Advisor @ Inflection Point Coaching + Advising
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
I leverage my decades of experience to help engineers and companies find their inflection points. As a Career Coach, I will help you achieve your goals, whether it is related to promotion, professional development, communication, or work-life balance. As an Advisor, I will help unblock the obstacles to the growth you know is possible.

### Software Engineer @ Included Health
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2006 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Staff Software Engineer in Search, working on infrastructure and framework for the full serving stack.

• Led integration of two complex systems with emergent properties in Google's core ranking code.
• Improved  developer velocity and development simplicity throughout Google's search serving stack.
• Created long-term value by turning overarching objectives into intermediate milestones that immediately deliver value.
• Led cross-role planning and execution, approaching partners and stakeholders with empathy. 
• Drove cross-organizational alignment with over 100 other teams under myriad VPs.
• Mentored and envisioned career paths with dozens of mentee engineers through personal growth and increased impact.

Before Search Infrastructure, worked in Local Search leading development of many complex features, including Reviews, Busyness, and the Material Design revamp which included integrating views.

Before that, worked on Ads, including on the first machine learning model at Google to detect noncompliant ads and landing pages. Also created tools and UIs enabling operations teams to improve revenue by XX million dollars.

### Software Engineer @ Appian Corp
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Designed and implemented features for Appian's Business Process Management software.  Led implementation teams for major features, including a JMS-based events framework which allows process integration into third party applications.

### Consultant @ Applied Information Technologies, Inc.
Jan 1998 – Jan 2004
Representative project: When cost overruns were expected with the work only half-done, took over to lead development of first web-based ROLIC interface for medical residency matching in the US and Canada.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Maryland

### Bachelor’s Degree in Communication - Rhetoric
University of Maryland

### BS in Computer Science
Mount Hebron High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benlindahl
- Portfolio: http://www.google.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11