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I'm a full-stack platform engineer with 27+ years building mission-critical systems across healthcare, enterprise, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Flutter/Dart (8+ years) with deep backend expertise in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python. I’m known for rescuing failing platforms, reducing infrastructure costs 60-70%, and building international teams across five continents. I lead end-to-end platform development—from BFF APIs to native/mobile experiences—and excel at architecting scalable, multi-tenant systems. I’m comfortable across cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and have a track record of delivering on-time, maintainable software while mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with technical strategy.…I'm a full-stack platform engineer with 27+ years building mission-critical systems across healthcare, enterprise, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Flutter/Dart (8+ years) with deep backend expertise in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python. I’m known for rescuing failing platforms, reducing infrastructure costs 60-70%, and building international teams across five continents. I lead end-to-end platform development—from BFF APIs to native/mobile experiences—and excel at architecting scalable, multi-tenant systems. I’m comfortable across cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and have a track record of delivering on-time, maintainable software while mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with technical strategy.

Benjamin LeBlond

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I'm a full-stack platform engineer with 27+ years building mission-critical systems across healthcare, enterprise, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Flutter/Dart (8+ years) with deep backend expertise in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python. I’m known for rescuing failing platforms, reducing infrastructure costs 60-70%, and building international teams across five continents. I lead end-to-end platform development—from BFF APIs to native/mobile experiences—and excel at architecting scalable, multi-tenant systems. I’m comfortable across cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and have a track record of delivering on-time, maintainable software while mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with technical strategy.…I'm a full-stack platform engineer with 27+ years building mission-critical systems across healthcare, enterprise, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Flutter/Dart (8+ years) with deep backend expertise in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python. I’m known for rescuing failing platforms, reducing infrastructure costs 60-70%, and building international teams across five continents. I lead end-to-end platform development—from BFF APIs to native/mobile experiences—and excel at architecting scalable, multi-tenant systems. I’m comfortable across cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and have a track record of delivering on-time, maintainable software while mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with technical strategy.

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I’m a full-stack platform engineer with 27+ years building mission-critical systems across healthcare, enterprise, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Flutter/Dart (8+ years) with deep backend expertise in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python. I’m known for rescuing failing platforms, reducing infrastructure costs 60-70%, and building international teams across five continents.

I lead end-to-end platform development—from BFF APIs to native/mobile experiences—and excel at architecting scalable, multi-tenant systems. I’m comfortable across cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and have a track record of delivering on-time, maintainable software while mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with technical strategy.

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Principal Consultant (Contract) at Waste Connections Inc

August 1, 2025 - Present

Built full-stack waste management platform serving 250+ subsidiaries with white-label multi-tenant architecture. Architected Dart BFF API, FlutterFlow mobile app, and Rust TUI admin console. Built AWS infrastructure with Terraform, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Engineered OpenSearch-based geospatial system indexing millions of addresses and routes. Trained engineering team on complete technology stack for platform development.

Principal Consultant (Contract) at Roto-Rooter Plumbers

October 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025

Solo engineer who salvaged failing mobile project, delivering dual-platform launch serving 100,000+ monthly active users. Rescued critically delayed project; delivered production iOS/Android apps in January 2025. Engineered AS/400 integration via DB2 triggers, RabbitMQ, and custom Go-based sync service. Built complete Azure environment: multi-stage CI/CD, Dart BFF API with 12+ endpoints, Firebase Functions.

Startup Engineer (Contract) at Celest (YC24)

June 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024

Core team member at Y Combinator startup building Flutter backend platform. Built Flutter Web admin console with org/user management and Turso database integration. Led gRPC-based Dart backend development alongside Go services on GCP. Represented startup at major Flutter conferences, evangelizing Dart-based backend architecture.

Principal Consultant (Contract) at Pigeon Healthcare

February 1, 2023 - April 1, 2024

Rescued abandoned telehealth platform serving Texas Health systems, eliminating multi-day outages. Reduced monthly infrastructure costs from $7K to $2K by optimizing ECS/RDS configuration. Unified three codebases (backend, iOS, Android) into single Flutter cross-platform solution. Architected secure SMS/MMS messaging, video conferencing, and LLM conversation summarization.

Backend Engineer at LibLab

September 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023

Backend engineer on SDK generation platform enabling high-quality SDK output from OpenAPI specs. Built AWS infrastructure with CDK: Docker-based Lambdas, DynamoDB, billing/metering. Architected server-side code generation protecting proprietary generators. Built Dart CLI enabling backend-controlled updates without client releases.

Senior Flutter Engineer at 1 Bright Health Group

November 1, 2021 - September 1, 2022

Early team member on DocSquad telehealth app, delivering 4.9-rated cross-platform application. Introduced go_router, architected Flutter Web, achieved single-codebase across iOS/Android/Web. Built C# BFF services integrating Azure B2C and SAML SSO authentication. Mentored team on Flutter best practices during early development phase.

Backend Engineer at Digital Turbine

February 1, 2020 - October 1, 2021

Backend engineer on personalized Android content distribution platform for telco partners. Architected serverless AWS Lambda content API with ML-powered NLP (Spacy, BART classification). Built recommendation engine using collaborative filtering with BigQuery and Firebase caching. Engineered cross-cloud sync between AWS DynamoDB and GCP BigQuery with delta calculation.

Backend Engineer at NBCUniversal

February 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020

Built automated video quality assurance pipeline for ad creative videos. Architected serverless QC pipeline: Lambdas, Step Functions, Kinesis, SQS with CDK. Achieved 100% test coverage through TDD; deployed to multiple NBC properties.

Flutter & Backend Engineer at Dunnhumby (Tesco Group)

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019

Led 4-engineer team on HuYu Flutter app in strategic partnership with Google. Collaborated with Google as early Flutter adopter, providing production feedback. Built cross-platform app with Scanbot receipt scanning and reward redemption. Architected serverless backend: Firebase Cloud Functions, Realtime Database, BigQuery.

Lead Software Engineer (Backend) at Grindr LLC

April 1, 2014 - August 1, 2015

Led backend transformation for platform serving 5.8M daily active users at 35K-40K peak RPS. Resolved multi-day outages, led Ruby to Java Enterprise rewrite maintaining feature velocity. Implemented API gateway enabling incremental microservices migration. Replaced Mongo/Redis with Elasticsearch architecture at $150-300K/month AWS scale. Built international teams in Argentina, Poland, and India.

CDN Optimization Engineer at Cedexis

January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014

CDN optimization, acquired by Citrix

Software Engineer at Janrain

January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011

Identity management, acquired by Akamai

E-commerce Engineer at Williams-Sonoma

January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2010

E-commerce platform development

Software Engineer at Jive Software

January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2009

Enterprise collaboration, IPO