Ben Burdette
Founding Member at Codeops LLC
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBen Burdette is a founding member and experienced software engineer based in Boulder, Colorado, with 16 years building practical, production-grade systems across startups and contract work. He has a strong background in low-level and back-end development, notably contributing to the widely used Nix package manager by improving its error reporting and debugging with structured error frameworks and enhanced diagnostics. Ben’s career spans industrial measurement software for laser sensors to modern startup stacks, reflecting an ability to move between domain-specific embedded systems and developer tooling. As a founder at Interstitial Technology and principal at his contracting firm Codeops LLC, he combines hands-on coding with product-minded engineering and long-term maintenance focus. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, which underpins his analytical approach to system design and testing. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle UX improvements for developer tools that pay dividends in day-to-day productivity.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (11)
debugging10
error-handling10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
nix9
functional-programming9
package-manager8
lang8
declarative-programming8
package-manager-tool8
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 251 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on improving the error reporting and debugging capabilities within the Nix package manager. Their contributions focused on implementing a structured error framework, including adding code line references, column highlighting, and various levels of logging. This involved modifying core C++ files and adding new testing procedures to improve the overall usability and diagnostic features of the Nix ecosystem.
nixpackage-managerpure-functionfunctional-programmingc-plus-plus
bburdette/nix
Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Contributions:216 pushes, 38 branches in 4 years
nixpackage-managerpure-function
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