Ben Brandt
Rust Engineer at Zed Industries
Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region Germany
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Top SchoolBen Brandt is a Rust engineer and staff-level technologist with 12 years of experience building production software across UI/UX, cloud, and systems domains while living in the Rhein-Neckar region of Germany. He has led teams from 10 to 50+ engineers and brought a WebAssembly-based AI serving runtime from proof-of-concept to production in under eight months. Comfortable shifting between front-end product leadership and low-level systems work, Ben has driven migrations to containerized AWS infrastructure and integrated ML workflows for faster iteration. Currently at Zed Industries, he focuses on Rust-powered engineering for performant, secure services, drawing on a background that includes motion graphics and production tooling—an unusual combination that helps him communicate design intent to engineers. Known for mentoring cross-discipline engineers and aligning stakeholders, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a knack for shipping user-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cinema and Media Arts - Production, BA Cinema and Media Arts - Production at Biola UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Portland Community CollegeVFX Motion Graphics 3D & Production Training, VFX Motion Graphics 3D & Production Training at fxphd
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
benbrandt/programming-in-c
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:199 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
benbrandt/bag_of_tricks
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Random D&D Character Generator in Rust
Contributions:338 commits, 644 PRs, 780 pushes in 1 year 8 months
rustcharactercharacter-generator
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