ben visintainer

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20+ years of production engineering — from Nordstrom's merchandising platforms to IoT architectures at Resideo. Currently building @teqbench, a layered Angular ecosystem designed for AI-assisted development.

Open to senior IC, architecture, and engineering leadership roles.

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Current Work

TeqBench

2025–present

Angular ecosystem designed for AI-assisted development

Angular stack focused on deployments to Vercel and Supabase with shared domain models, pluggable DI, and machine-readable conventions. Automated publishing, semantic versioning, and centralized CI/CD across all repos.

liists

2025–present

List management application and live testing surface for TeqBench packages

Consumer-facing rolling to-do list management app. Every TeqBench pattern ships here first, validated against real users before being extracted into a library.

Trading Toolbox

2024–present

Trading journal aggregating data from four brokerage platforms

CSV import from TradingView, Kraken, Coinbase, and Robinhood. Position modeler with tax calculations. OAuth with Google, GitHub, and magic link.

Previous Work

Position Modeler

2020–2024

Independent

Trading (stock, crypto) position modeler. Models buy/sell increments to target percentage returns.

.NET CoreC#TypeScriptAngularAngular MaterialMongoDBGitHub Actions

Data Sampler

2019–2022

Infinetix

Pipe integrity analysis — real-time processing and graphing of up to four channels of streaming data samples.

.NETC#WinFormsRS-232

Agriculture IoT

2019–2022

Infinetix

POC integrating agricultural environmental controls with IoT devices, cloud data logging and companion dashboard.

.NET CoreC#Cosmos DBAngularAngular Material

OpenFMB/MQTT-SN

2019–2022

Infinetix

POC evaluating OpenFMB protocol compatibility and efficiency with ultra-low-powered endpoints.

GoBeagleBone BlackMQTTMQTT-SNRabbitMQ

Buy Planner

2010–2015

Nordstrom

Merchandise buy planning application. In production since 2013, processed $50+ billion in orders.

.NETC#WCFWinFormsDevExpressOracle/RMSJenkins

Agile Pilot

2008

Nordstrom

One of two engineers selected to lead introduction of Agile — determine business viability of designer label virtual shopping and provide guidance on enterprise adoption.

Process DesignChange Management

Order Optimizer

2008

Nordstrom

Web-based excel-like application to optimize merchandise quantities in case pack orders.

.NETC#WCFjQuery

Control Systems

2005–2006

Ascentium → PACCAR

Semi-truck controls application used to program truck dashboard signal lights at manufacturing plant via serial comms.

.NETC#WinFormsXMLRS-232

NLP Chatbots

2003–2004

Next IT

Chatbot tooling and FPML data models for conversational AI platforms.

.NETC#NLPFPML

Independent Engineer2023–present

TeqBench

AI-consumable Angular ecosystem, Shared Claude Code skills, Trading Toolbox, liists, GitHub Workflows

Solution Architect2022–2023

Resideo

High-level solution designs for IoT devices, universal domain model, schema-driven data models, model-first engineering approach

Software Engineer2019–2022

Infinetix

Pipe integrity analysis, agriculture IoT with .NET Core/Azure Cosmos DB/Angular, OpenFMB/MQTT-SN protocol evaluation

Senior Engineer II2017–2019

Nordstrom

Led architectural roadmap for multi-billion-dollar private label line of business, modern SOA, UX & telemetry

Director of Engineering2016–2017

Schedulicity

Restructured 10+ member team, 250+% productivity increase in 9 months, implemented KB for engineering, QA and customer support teams, from near-zero to 2,000+ KB articles

Senior Staff Engineer2006–2015

Nordstrom

Buy Planner ($50B+ in orders), order optimization, led org-wide Git migration, led introduction of Agile across IT

Software Engineer2004–2006

Ascentium

Consulting for Fortune 500 clients — PACCAR truck control systems, embedded hardware-software integration

Software Engineer2003–2004

Next IT

NLP chatbot tooling and FPML data models for conversational AI