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Ben Anderson

@benanderson1

Senior .NET/Azure engineer and tech lead delivering enterprise cloud and performance wins. Relocating July 12th to Porto, Portugal on a D7 Visa.

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to global remote roles (CET/WET with full US East overlap). I want to lead enterprise .NET/Azure modernization—cloud migration, performance optimization, and AI-assisted delivery—working via direct hire or EOR (Deel/Remote.com/Oyster), no sponsorship.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 20+ years scaling enterprise .NET/Azure platforms in financial services and logistics. At PPM America, I’m the sole technical owner for systems supporting $7.65B AUM and $3.5B annual loan origination.

I’m known for cloud migrations, performance wins (11x SQL runtime reduction), and AI-assisted productivity in legacy modernization. I architected and shipped a Blazor-powered DataMart and Data Portal, centralized analytic snapshots, and enabled real-time PowerBI dashboards for executive leadership.

I lead end-to-end delivery—from system design and distributed systems to ETL pipelines and on-call support. I also mentor teams and collaborate across time zones using Teams and JIRA, keeping production stability while modernizing legacy .NET/SQL platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Dev Lead

Current

PPM America

Mar 2014 - Present (12 years 3 months)

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead at PPM America since 2014. Sole owner of the .NET/Azure platform for the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group ($7.65B AUM, $3.5B annual originations). I architect and operate deal origination, portfolio analytics, and investor reporting. Led cloud migration to Azure; 11x SQL performance gain; daily GitHub Copilot use for legacy modernization.

C++.NET SQL Server Blazor Performance Tuning Power BI Stored Procedures

Senior Software Engineer

Scope Services Inc.

Oct 2008 - Apr 2014 (5 years 6 months)

Led a distributed Agile team delivering smart-meter deployment systems for Fortune 500 utility clients. Built a WPF inventory management system and a real-time ASP.NET web portal with automated invoicing and live performance metrics, implementing ETL with RhinoETL under strict TDD (NUnit).

C++ASP.NET WPF SQL Server NUnit FluentValidation NLog Agile Scrum Fluent Validation

Software Engineer (R&D)

Manhattan Associates

Jun 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years 4 months)

Contributed to R&D for enterprise Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). Designed and shipped a .NET 3.5/WPF/XAML 3D dock-manager UI used as a premier sales tool, and refactored legacy RF scanning business logic across JavaScript, SQL, and stored procedures with deep debugging using SQL Server Profiler, TOAD, and DebugView.

WPF XAML JavaScript SQL Stored Procedures Debugging Performance Oracle

Contract Software Engineer

Alliance Group Technologies

Dec 2005 - Jun 2006 (6 months)

Built shape-compliance data analytics for industrial steel-coil manufacturing using C# and ASP.NET 2.0. Designed automated background mailer alerting for anomalous manufacturing cycles and created a dynamic domain interface architecture to centralize variable management and reduce maintenance overhead.

C++ASP.NET Data Analytics Background Email Alerts