Ben Buckman Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Tech Lead of Developer Experience: Developer Environments team. My customers are the 800+ Rippling engineers.My projects have included automating IDE setup on cloud devboxes; making tests run much faster; and mentoring an intern to revamp the infrastructure for cloud dev environments. Coming soon: benchmarks to assess and compare AI dev tools; and migrating the codebase to a more performant type checker.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Tech lead on Genomics Platform's Data Analysis & Operations team.Building software infrastructure for genomics research, supporting the Broad’s mission: "to better understand the roots of disease and to narrow the gap between biological insight and clinical impact, paving the way for novel therapeutics for a wide range of human diseases."* In Q2 2023, launched a data pipeline for genomics research labs, managing large volumes of data from gene sequencers through analysis, transformation, and delivery to customers. Utilizing Apache Airflow, Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Storage, and Google Batch.* In Q4 2023, building a pipeline for clinical providers, additionally utilizing Cromwell/WDL and Terra Data Repository. Supporting the development of an internal-facing UI application.* Team of 6-12 engineers, including FTEs of various experience levels and contractors. Role involves significant mentoring and advising as well as architecting.

Professional sabbatical to travel, move to Boston area, and pursue other goals.

South San Francisco, California, Us

2021-2022, Deployment and Configuration:* Tech lead of new Configuration team. Engineering lead on multi-month, full-team project to build user-centric tooling for rolling out changes to runtime configuration gradually and safely. Grew team 3 to 6 mid-project, stretching limits of effective parallelization to ship on time. * Promoted to Staff Engineer following 12+ months of demonstrated ability at staff level.2018-2020, Developer Productivity, Ruby Infra:* Engineering lead on production profiler for Ruby services.* Engineering lead on re-architecture of Feature Flags infrastructure, propagating configuration changes to tens of thousands of hosts in seconds.2017-2018, Stripe Billing: * Engineering lead for accepting paper checks as payment for invoices, involving complex interactions of software with physical logistics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Senior platform engineer building B2C and B2B logistics software for shipping and packaging, with Node.js, Postgres, and React.* Led engineering on Shopify API integration while onboarding 4 new engineers.* Led engineering on eBay API integration, and published open-source eBay API client for Node.js.* Drove efforts to clean up technical debt and improve performance and scalability.* Promoted pair-coding and test-driven development.

Oakland, California, Us

* Developed logistics software for innovative food distribution model. XP/agile approach with Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Angular.* Led development of marketplace Availability service: aggregating inventory, purchase orders, just-in-time​ capacities, and sales to communicate product availabilities to the market website and automated subscription service. Node.js with transactional Redis for primary datastore, RabbitMQ for inbound and outbound event stream.* Led development of Inventory service. Utilized Node.js and MongoDB with document-level atomic writes for audit trail. Tracked status and location of food from receiving to delivery, including cycle counting and shrinkage.​

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Rebuilt a global SaaS application with millions of consumer and enterprise customers using Node.js.* Lead Engineer, Growth & Architecture team. Responsible for team’s operations, delivering features, interfacing with other stakeholders, and mentoring.* Strong advocate of long-term maintainability of code, automated testing, and reducing barriers between Dev, Ops, and QA.* Contributed significant work to the Node.js community, including a Redis Sentinel client.* Created and edited the DocuSign Dev Blog.

Provided expert consulting and development for Drupal and Node.js to 30+ clients. Specialized in custom application development, auditing for best practices, site repairs, geo/mapping, scaling for high traffic, and training. Direct client engagement as well as partnerships with other firms & developers.

Dev, ops, and business development for AntiquesNearMe.com, a startup building a portal for antiques local search. Gained startup and business development experience.

Framingham, Ma, Us

Web developer in IDG's Online Publishing Group. Specialized in PHP and Drupal, maintained websites of high-traffic global publications, and developed new online products.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Built online communities for progressive, non-profit, and social-mission organizations. Primarily Drupal development.

Web development in ASP, PHP, and Drupal.Built HTML and Javascript mockups for an enterprise software company's sales department. Developed a custom CMS for a Boston community newspaper. Built an ad network with OpenX and Joomla. Managed website content for Boston University.