Ben Buckman
Staff Software Engineer at PicnicHealth
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Buckman is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 20+ years of experience building scalable platforms, developer tools, and data pipelines across startups and large orgs. He’s led teams at Stripe, Broad Institute, Rippling, and PicnicHealth, focusing on developer productivity, secure configuration, and genomics data workflows while mentoring engineers at every level. Comfortable across Python, Node.js, Ruby, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP, he combines hands-on implementation with architecture and operational rigor. Notable outcomes include accelerating developer workflows in a 10M+ LOC monorepo, launching clinical genomics pipelines, and shipping production profilers and feature-flag infrastructure at Stripe. Based in the Boston area, he’s driven by a passion for clean energy and sustainability and a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new domains and reduce organizational friction.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BASIC HTML CSS Javascript Visual Basic C++ ASP, BASIC HTML CSS Javascript Visual Basic C++ ASP at Self-taughtBA Philosophy Political Science International Relations, BA Philosophy Political Science International Relations at Boston University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
sorbet10
checker10
ruby9
stripe-js9
react-stripe9
stripe-payments8
stripe7
encryption6
react6
nodejs6
google-oauth6
job-scheduling6
32-bit6
google-app-engine6
git6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sorbet/sorbet
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby
Contributions:2 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 11 months
type-checkersorbetrubychecker
stripe/goforit
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
A feature flags client library for Go
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
golangclient-libraryflagsgofeature-flags
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