Ben Plowman

Co-Founder / CTO

Parkade

Jan 2019 - Current (7 years 6 months)

Engineering Manager

Getaround

Jun 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Lead Mobile Engineer

Getaround

Jul 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years)

Mobile Engineer

Ning Interactive Inc

Dec 2010 - Mar 2013 (2 years 4 months)

Working on the Android client for Mogwee.

Application Developer

Ning

Jul 2010 - Jan 2011 (7 months)

Worked with managers, product managers, and other engineers to make improvements and write new features for the ning.com site. Language was primarily PHP, with some Java and Javascript mixed in, as well as HTML and derivatives.

Service Reliability Engineer

Ning

Feb 2010 - Jul 2010 (6 months)

Worked primarily from the software side to improve Ning uptime site-wide. Wrote tools, automation, and bug fixes to this end. Worked with Operations, Advocacy, and all of our software groups to quickly diagnose and prescribe fixes for site performance, downtime, and glitches. Was part of the on-call team during much of this time.

Technical Resource

University of Nebraska System

Aug 2009 - Dec 2009 (5 months)

I worked as the first employee to define specifications for and begin development on an agile project management website that the Raikes School could use internally and perhaps spin off into a company in the future.

Senior I/S Intern

Mutual of Omaha

Jun 2009 - Dec 2009 (7 months)

I worked in the individual financial services division at Mutual of Omaha, with the Application Entry team to develop a framework that can validate web requests for insurance and create meaningful feedback when failures occur. The framework can be customized to validate for any insurance application, and I also created the Medicare Supplement-specific portion of this validation framework.

SDET Intern

Microsoft

May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)

Worked on test automation for a Windows Live website that dealt with keyword-based advertising. They offered me a full-time job, but I wanted to move to Silicon Valley so I had to decline.

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