Ben Bakken

Bio

Ben Bakken has spent over three decades building, designing, and keeping enterprise software running in the real world—where things break, scale, and matter. As a partner at 20x20 Solutions, Ben works with organizations of all sizes to cut through whatever briar patch gets in the way—helping teams actually use whatever tools and resources they have available and stay focused on outcomes and effects.

Previously, Ben was Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Bangstate Inc., led application development at Allston Trading, and served as Director of Engineering for Samsung SmartThings during a massive global IoT launch. He also scaled backend systems at Redbrick Health through hypergrowth.

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