# Josh Benner > Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshbenner I'm a results driven engineer looking to push the needle and grow my team. Passionate about all things Web - from modernizing large corporate Angular applications to moving the entire infrastructure and CICD onto new platforms such as Terraform, Tekton, and Google Cloud. Preferred Locations(Urban/Downtown) - Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Denver ## Work Experience ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Ford Motor Company Jan 2023 – Present | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ● Seamlessly launched business operations products to 5K+ internal users to enable quicker resolutions for millions of customers ● Pioneered strategy of microfrontends and monorepos which increased product delivery +30% over 15 products ● Consolidated or removed 8 products, 2 domains, and removed over 100k+ lines of code to reduce teams technical overhead ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Ford Motor Company Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Leading the Connected Vehicle Business Operations Portal team in implementing new modern cloud based infrastructure for our 32+ portlets. Update older technologies and applications to a modern developer workflow and experience. ● Led frontend rewrite of our vehicle troubleshooting service to create a modern, reactive, component driven Angular App ● Implemented an externally available Angular App using Terraform, Google Cloud Storage(GCS) and a Google Cloud Load Balancer ● Increased teams deployments by over 50% through improving Jenkins pipelines to automate testing, code quality, alerting, and deployment Technologies: ● Angular (6 through 15), TypeScript, Nx/Angular CLI, RxJS, NX, Java 11, Kotlin ● Git, Github, Google Cloud Storage(Hosting), Cloud Run, Google Cloud Load Balancing(Hosting) ● Jenkins, Terraform, Tekton, Pivotal Cloud Foundry(PCF), Openshift, Google Cloud Platform ● Sonarqube, Fossa, Checkmarx, 42 Crunch, Prettier ● Slack(remote communication), Confluence (business requirements, documentation), Jira (project tracking) ### Software Engineer @ Amway Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote - Grand Rapids, MI ● Led global initiative to improve Developer Experience through Slack, TDD, Mob Programming, and Remote Tools that resulted in the team going from bottom quartile to the #1 team for team satisfaction ● Automated a continuously deployed and versioned private NPM package for consumption by ecommerce teams and mentored team members to improve coverage goal from 40% to 99.5% ● Architected and implemented 15+ shared angular components for the micro frontend ecommerce CMS design system ● Implemented extensive Slack bots, workflows, and channels for onboarding, developer experience, and cross organization communication Technologies: ● Angular 11, TypeScript, Angular CLI, Angular Material, RxJS, Nrwl, Java ● Git, Github, Amazon S3(Hosting) ● AWS CodeArtifact, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, AWS Lambda, Jenkins, Dev Containers, Github Codespaces ● Slack(remote communication), Confluence (business requirements, documentation), Jira (project tracking) ### Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ● Implemented ability to replicate to digital clearance programs to align digital and store strategies ● Automated inventory markdown calculations to reforecast $3B in clearance programs ● Engaged with University Recruiting team to assist in recruiting 60+ engineers ### Technology Leadership Program Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ● Developed tool to link items to enable Apparel and Beauty to rapidly categorize over 74K items ● Created a script that automatically verified changes to Kafka topic for 300K records ● Organized 3 Target Hackathons for 90 TLP engineers ● Mentored 5 engineers during their first TLP rotation while also assisting with onboarding 55 engineer cohort to Target culture, systems, and processes ### Founding Engineer @ GrowthChart Records, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Area Created a hands free documentation app for preschool and daycare teachers through Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home’s digital voice assistant technology Built and deployed the Alexa and Google Assistant App which interacts with the API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB Recognized as a top Google Assistant App Developer Made top 50 of 150 teams at both Baylor and TCU’s business competition, top 12 at MSU Business competition ### Teaching Assistant @ Michigan State University College of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | East Lansing, Michigan, United States I instructed a lab section of 24 students in CSE 232, the introductory course to C++ and second programming course for CSE majors and minors Answered over 200 answers on our Q&A platform, Piazza and assisted with help room hours Helped push new ideas to reform the course in order to manage the class of 400 going online, such as using a more powerful IDE with code completion, doxystring generation, and linting in order to assist in helping students meet a higher level of code quality and help lessen the burden of grading for TA's Along with the professor, I helped students learn basic programming concepts ### Software Engineer Intern @ Textron Systems Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cockeysville, MD ● Performing design and development with the possible embedded control systems, operator interfaces, and mobile device applications teams ### Software Engineer Intern @ Crowe Horwath LLP Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States ● Worked on the Use Tax Simplifier which consists of a high level MVC, AngularJS, and a Web API to help clients figure out their tax bills ● Decreased Angular page load times by up to 40% ● Created complex server side queries and API calls to find tax conflicts that helped other developers with the tax conflicts page ● Refactored major functionality into a reusable directive and to cut API calls in 1/2 for that feature ● Fixed validations and user restrictions of content and actions they can perform ### Student Researcher and Developer @ College of Social Science at Michigan State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | East Lansing While waiting to leave for my study abroad to Hong Kong for spring semester of 2016 I worked with Dr Baekkwan Park in the Social Science Data Analytics Lab on research concerning human rights, international law and organizations, American foreign policy, and international relations. Our research used natural language processing to allow data analytics to generate reports to determine a terror rating for the country. ### Teaching Assistant for CSE 100 @ Michigan State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | East Lansing ● Assist students with questions about computer science topics ● Advise new computer science students with resources and career development ### Web Developer Intern @ Michigan State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | East Lansing, MI ● Implementing a new responsively designed new look to Legume Innovation Labs website. ● Used extensive CSS and HTML to build legumelabs.msu.edu(still in development) ● Learned how to build the developmental template to match the mockup and how to use a content management system(ExpressionEngine) ● Updated the website to be fully responsively designed and meet accessibility standards ### Software Engineer Intern @ TechSmith Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Okemos, MI ● Helped stabilize scrolling captures and increased scrolling related speeds by 100x ● Developed UI changes and worked with UX designer to create a better experience ● Built alternative scrolling and fallback methods and fixed broken methods ● Gained experience in developer tools and using teleop to communicate between C# and C++ ### Entrepreneur @ Josh's Lawn Mowing Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Grand Rapids ● Serviced 25 customers weekly with a total customer base of 45 that I have acquired over 4 years. ● I increased sales 300% year over year through improved marketing through signs and increased referral programs. ● Grossed over $5,000 in the last year on my own in the past summer and hired an associate to help keep up. ### Service Clerk @ SpartanNash Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Grand Rapids ● Handled all customers service requests or find the appropriate manager to solve the issue. ● Learned to manage and plan my time in order to keep the store running smoothly and stocked. ● Built customer service abilities and conflict resolution skills. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with a Minor in Economics, 3.36 Michigan State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering in Computer Science with an Economics Minor The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Diploma in 3.98 East Kentwood High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshbenner851 - GitHub: https://github.com/joshbenner851 - Website: http://joshuaericbenner.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshbenner JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshbenner/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22