Ben Chaplin
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBen Chaplin is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building full-stack systems for finance and cloud at companies like Elastic, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs. He’s delivered everything from network automation microservices and a microfrontend framework at Goldman to user-facing security and employee-facing web/mobile apps at Amazon, and now contributes to search infrastructure at Elastic. Comfortable across the full SDLC, Ben focuses on CI/CD, deployment automation, and pragmatic Agile practices that help teams move quickly and reliably. He pairs a math background from Lafayette College with hands-on work in React, TypeScript, and backend microservices, and has a track record of shipping features that scale to millions of users. Less obvious: he’s combined production engineering with front-end ownership and nonprofit web development, showing an ability to switch contexts and drive end-to-end projects.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bethlehem Central High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Lafayette College
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Github Skills (25)
lucene10
search-engine10
nosql10
information-retrieval10
java10
restful10
rest10
elasticsearch10
backend10
hungarian-algorithm9
visualizations9
elastic8
kibana8
observability8
mongodb6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benchaplin/halfblindchess
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
benchaplin/elasticsearch
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:132 pushes, 61 branches in 1 year 3 months
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