Ben Harder

Software engineer with a Bachelor’s in computer engineering from the University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

Experience

  • Intermediate Software Engineer at Hiive
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Software Engineer at STEMCELL Technologies
    Sep 2022 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Developed cutting-edge medical research instruments using Elixir/Phoenix and Rust.

  • Server Engineer at Skillz Inc.
    Nov 2021 - May 2022 · 7 mos

    - Diligently followed technical design documentation to develop Go microservices, running in a cloud Kubernetes environment - Fixed bugs and improved legacy codebases in Java - Improved developer experience by tooling on-call paging alarms to appropriate reactivity and updating technical documentation

  • Cloud Engineer at Activision
    May 2021 - Nov 2021 · 7 mos

    - Facilitated infrastructure migrations between cloud service providers - Contributed to and wrote infrastructure tooling in Python and Go - Wrote Terraform and Helm to configure cloud and Kubernetes resources

  • Software Developer Intern at ehsAI (Moore & Gasperecz Global Inc.)
    May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos

    - Developed Go software to interact with various microservices (ex: MongoDB wrapper, Prometheus metric exporter) - Configured and wrote infrastructure as code to both add features and new services to the Kubernetes cluster (ex: configured and deployed Vault)