Ben Buckman
Staff Software Engineer at PicnicAI
San Francisco, California, 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.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BASIC HTML, BASIC HTML at Self-taughtBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Boston University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Stackoverflow
544reputation
27kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (20)
ruby9
sorbet9
react-stripe9
stripe7
js6
encryption6
nodejs6
google-oauth6
job-scheduling6
32-bit6
mcfunction6
google-app-engine6
typechecker6
fiddle6
git6
Programming languages (4)
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
rubytypecheckersorbet
stripe/goforit
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
A feature flags client library for Go
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
feature-flagsgo
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