Ben Serrette
Director Of IT & Engineering at Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Serrette is a Director of IT & Engineering with 15 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently stabilizing and growing engineering at the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University. He blends full-stack development skills (JavaScript, Python, Vue.js, PHP, PostgreSQL) with pragmatic IT and grant management—overseeing $750K+ in research funding while cutting monthly IT costs by $9,000. A former programmer and illustrator, he translates messy academic research needs into polished, usable web tools for network science and social media analysis, and introduced Agile practices to accelerate delivery. Ben has a track record of mentoring engineers into promoted roles and scaling teams from a single developer to a multi-person group, pairing technical depth with people-focused leadership.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Informatics HCI/d, Masters in Informatics HCI/d at Indiana University BloomingtonBS in Business Administration MIS, BS in Business Administration MIS at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
English
Github Skills (36)
administration10
backend10
grav-plugin10
grav9
frontend9
discourse8
user-interface8
php8
cms8
markdown8
admin8
discord7
laravel7
reddit7
content-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
benserrette/nuxt-portfolio
Apr 2020 - Jun 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
IUNetSci/mag_api
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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