Ben Caimano
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Caimano is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years building low-latency, reliable systems across databases, distributed runtimes, and serverless platforms. He’s shipped kernel- and networking-level improvements at MongoDB, refactored Durable Object storage and observability at Cloudflare, and now works on high-scale infrastructure at Datadog. Comfortable in C++ and systems design, he’s contributed to marquee open-source projects like MongoDB, Cap’n Proto, and Cloudflare’s workerd—often tackling async, TLS, and replica-set robustness. Trained in both mechanical engineering and computer science at Columbia, he gravitates toward problems that bridge physical-world constraints and user-facing systems, from robot motion planning to production networking. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers interesting technical challenges to routine feature work.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Columbia University
English, French, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
asynchronous10
c-language10
tls1210
async10
databases10
distributed-systems10
database-administration10
cloudflare-workers10
tls1310
mongodb-database10
mtls10
libtls10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
replication10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:361 commits, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits focus on implementing features within the MongoDB database system's internal workings, specifically around the ReplicaSetMonitor. The contributions involve modifying C++ code related to replica set monitoring and management, including features such as handling timeouts and rescanning replica sets. The code changes address issues related to replica set monitoring and improve the robustness of the replica set management.
mongodb-databasec-plus-plusdatabasemongodbnosql
cloudflare/workerd
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript / Wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 reviews, 21 commits, 42 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the core runtime of Cloudflare Workers. Their work focused on refactoring and cleaning up the Durable Object storage component, including changes to flush operations, error handling, and alarm mechanisms. The user also introduced features such as the `onNoPendingFlush()` method, and added methods for explicit shutdowns and waiting for flush operations to complete within the Durable Object framework. They addressed various exception scenarios and corrected error handling throughout the codebase.
cloudflare-workersjavascript
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