Today's guest is Kevin Ferguson, VP of Engineering at BentoBox in New York. Founded in 2013, BentoBox empowers restaurants to own their presence, profits and relationships. Trusted and loved by over 6,000 restaurants worldwide, BentoBox puts the restaurant first and offers tools that drive high-margin revenue directly through the restaurant’s website. Their vision is to leverage new technology that elevates every interaction between restaurants and their guests.
Kevin brings over 18 years of experience in delivering software through all phases of development to BentoBox and has a proven track record of hiring and developing software engineers to become high-performing teams. Kevin is an ambitious engineering leader with a passion for building great software and a results-oriented professional who takes extreme pride in exceeding customer expectations.
In the episode, Kevin will tell you about:
The interesting work they do in the hospitality sector
How their engineering team has evolved
Interesting projects the data engineering team are working on
How they successfully grew the team during the pandemic
Plans for the future and what they're looking for when hiring
Why he loves working at BentoBox
