Ben Burry
Senior Staff Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Burry is a Senior Staff Engineer based in New York with 15 years of experience building reliable, scalable web and deployment systems across high-growth product teams. He has a long tenure at Etsy with multiple engineering leadership roles and a Staff Software Engineer stint at GitHub, demonstrating deep expertise in backend architecture, deployment tooling, and site reliability. Ben contributes to open-source deployment tooling—working on projects like deployinator—highlighting a practical focus on robust release pipelines and API-driven backend logic. He combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-team influence, consistently improving stability and developer workflows in production environments. Trained in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach shaped by both startup and large-platform experiences.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (13)
sinatra10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby10
deployment-automation9
git8
3d-secure6
xml6
webhooks6
opayo6
shopify6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
etsy/deployinator
Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
Deployinate!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the application's core functionality, primarily focusing on backend logic and API endpoints. Their work involved fixing syntax errors and removing endpoints referencing missing functions, indicating a focus on maintaining the application's stability. Furthermore, they incorporated base setup components, including Sinatra integration, and made modifications to helper functions, demonstrating involvement in the overall architecture and functionality of the deployment system.
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etsy/logster
Apr 2013 - Jul 2017
Parse log files, generate metrics for Graphite and Ganglia
Contributions:13 commits, 20 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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