# Ben Guthrie

**Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead** — Salt Lake City, UT, United States

> Full-stack engineer focused on systems architecture, infrastructure optimization, and technical leadership across high-scale applications.

Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-guthrie
- GitHub: https://github.com/bengu3

## Experience

### Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead, SchoolAI (2024-10 – 2026-10)
Lehi, UT · Architected a full-stack application rearchitecture across 25 engineers and five teams. Migrated nearly 1 billion rows in a week with zero downtime, eliminated recurring chat outages through structured validation, and improved LLM prompt cache-hit rates from 20% to 90%. Established domain-based services to consolidate duplicate logic, co-authored engineering principles adopted by 40 engineers, and cut infrastructure costs by $80,000 monthly.

### Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | Architecture, Vue, TypeScript, GoLang, Vasion (2023-04 – 2024-10)
Utah, United States · Directed planning and architecture for 10+ features while mentoring teammates. Redesigned the legacy print job management service to cut processing time by 50% and built a flexible rule-based action architecture for print jobs. Led weekly engineering discussions and presented five trainings on front-end architecture, collaborating with the platform team to build a shared design system used across seven applications.

### Full-Stack Software Engineer | React, TypeScript, Node, PostgreSQL, Pluralsight (2019-06 – 2023-04)
Draper, Utah, United States · Architected a platform consolidating redundant features across 5+ teams and services. Led cross-functional collaboration between product, design, engineering, and architecture teams on 50+ new features. Expanded automated test coverage across 3 services to run in under 20 seconds, revamped CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment time from 10 to 2 minutes, and refactored service deployments from EC2 to Kubernetes. Authored a Node library for Kafka consumed by 20+ services and developed React component libraries.

### Full Stack Engineer Intern | React, TypeScript, Node, PostgreSQL, Pluralsight (2018-04 – 2018-08)
South Jordan, Utah · - Maintained full-stack application built with technologies including Typescript, React, Redux, Express, Node, and PostgreSQL - Expanded automated test suite for multiple services - Deployed services using continuous integration and continuous deployment services, such as TeamCity

### Software Engineer Intern | AngularJS, 3M HIS (2017-05 – 2017-08)
Murray, Utah · - Learn AngularJS basics - Refactor current settings application page from jQuery to AngularJS - Share weekly learnings with team about AngularJS

## Education

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2021-09 – 2021-08)

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Brigham Young University (2013-08 – 2019-06)

## Skills

Firebase, Redis, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Datadog, turborepo, zod, pnpm, Prisma ORM, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BullMQ, TRPC, Tanstack, Zustand, Computer Accessibility, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Large Language Models (LLM), I18n, System Architecture, Technical Staff Management, Managing Technical Personnel, Technology Leadership, React.js, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue.js, Redux.js, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), SASS, Express.js, Go (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon SQS, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon S3, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Gitlab, Github Actions, TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Mocha (JavaScript Framework), Jest, React Testing Library, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Git, Vite, Gin, Prisma, SQLite, Mocha, Vitest, Playwright, Claude Code, Cursor, Full stack, React

## Credentials

- **TensorFlow Developer Certificate** — TensorFlow Certificate Program

## AI Fluency

- **OpenCode** (https://opencode.ai)

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