# Brody Dingel > Senior Software Engineer II at Bestow Location: Ames, Iowa, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brodydingel I'm a full-stack software engineer, currently working primarily in the TypeScript/JavaScript space. I enjoy writing software that has a meaningful impact on others' lives. In my current role at Bestow, my team is building an internal library to streamline the process for our frontend clients to talk to our backend. We're making it easier for our clients to make life insurance easier and more affordable. I also have plenty of experience with a variety of tools in a microservice architecture, including Node, GraphQL, REST, Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes. I've also spent a lot of time on the frontend working with tools like React, Next.js, and React Testing Library. I'm a strong believer in automated testing and type safety. Well-tested code is safe code! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer II @ Bestow Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bestow Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Software Engineer II @ Bestow Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### President @ Linguatorium Research Corporation Jan 2018 – Present | Ames, IA Oversee international marketing operations and outreach for Linguatorium's language-learning tools, Lexis and Auris. Work closely with other members of the Linguatorium project to ensure quality products that are current with research and that best fit language learners' needs ### Software Engineer II @ Hy-Vee, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Contributed to full-stack development on dozens of applications for our e-commerce platform Led team of engineers in discovery and development of numerous projects Helped architect solutions spanning multiple microservices, including internal and external applications Wrote automated tests to protect against regressions and keep the pipeline green Pioneered evaluation and adoption of new testing strategy to simplify refactoring and give higher confidence in our code Co-led effort in introducing TypeScript to backend repos to provide type safety and improve DX across the stack ### Software Engineer I @ Hy-Vee, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Contributed to development of e-commerce platform across a number of frontend and backend projects Paired with other engineers to write reliable, performant, and maintainable code Learned fundamentals of various tools by getting hands-on experience while relying on experience of teammates ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ames, IA Worked collaboratively to develop a new (and much improved) Spanish Placement Exam for incoming students Assisted in search for web-based computer-adaptive testing software to host the new exam ### Instructor (Graduate Teaching Assistant), Spanish and Computational Linguistics @ Iowa State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Ames, IA Independently taught elementary Spanish and "Computers and Language" courses to 170 students over two years. Worked with other instructors of the Spanish Language Program to further develop and grow the program. Developed custom course website to help students navigate the courses. ### Tutor of Spanish and English @ Private Tutor Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Ames, IA Tutored both Spanish and English as a Second Language in one-on-one and group settings. While some of my experiences were paid, others were volunteer work, both of which allowed me to develop my skills as a language teacher and prepare for leading my own classroom in the future. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Ames, IA Worked on several ground-breaking grant-funded projects, including: 1. The CyWrite project: an automated writing evaluation (AWE) tool combining concurrent eye-tracking and keystroke-logging software that provides students with real-time corrective feedback. 2. CyTrack (Exploiting Keystroke Logging and Eye-Tracking to Support the Learning of Writing): another tool utilizing concurrent eye-tracking and keystroke-logging software designed to provide second language learners with formative feedback regarding their language-specific writing processes and which specific processes could be improved upon to increase fluency in writing. 3. The Golden Speaker project: an online pronunciation tool designed to help English learners improve their accent by creating an automated model speaker that synthesizes a perfect English accent into the learner's own voice. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ames, IA Assisted in teaching Spanish-English Translation as well as Grammatical Analysis. Within these roles I led classes, provided one-on-one help sessions, graded student work, and worked with the professors to improve the courses for following years. ### Intern @ California Language School Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Valencia, Spain During my time studying abroad in Valencia, Spain, I was able to serve as an Intern at the California Language School, an after-school English academy for students of all ages studying to improve their spoken and written English. As an intern, I assisted in classroom management, provided private tutoring, developed materials for an in-house EFL textbook, interacted with customers, and administered Cambridge English proficiency exams. ## Education ### Master's degree in Applied Linguistics Iowa State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Linguistics Iowa State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in World Languages and Cultures (Spanish) Iowa State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brodydingel - Website: https://dingel.dev/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/brodydingel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brodydingel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29