Ben Goertz
Co-Founder at Semi-Decent
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Goertz is a Portland-based iOS developer and co-founder of Semi-Decent, blending storytelling with code to tackle complex, demanding projects. With 10 years of experience, he has shipped iOS at Nike, Walmart Global Tech, and eBay, focusing on performance, UX, and scalable mobile architectures. His background as a TV producer, including an Emmy-winning role at the University of Alabama Athletics, informs a user-centric, cross-disciplinary approach to product development. Since 2024, he has been building Semi-Decent under the motto "All software sucks. What we build is Semi-Decent," reflecting a pragmatic, quality-driven ethos. Ben's unique mix of creative production discipline and hands-on engineering helps teams turn ambitious concepts into reliable, polished apps.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
476reputation
11kreached
23answers
6questions
Github Skills (41)
autosuggest8
autocomplete8
universe7
typeahead7
social-media7
swift6
backgrounds6
science6
react6
xcode6
iphone6
profiling6
ios6
uinavigationbar6
astronomy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
suite22/website
May 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 7 months
suite22/cinemetrics
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 24 pushes in 6 months
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