Ben Cordes
Principal Software Engineer at Clear Ballot Group
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Cordes is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building data pipelines, APIs, and backend systems across startups and large enterprises from Boston/Somerville. He blends low-level computer-architecture instincts (OS virtual memory, microprocessor design) with practical cloud-era engineering—delivering ETL and ingestion platforms on AWS, Java/Spring microservices, and Ruby on Rails integrations. Ben has repeatedly led technical standards, mentored junior engineers, and driven cross-team architecture and product improvements at firms including Akamai, Grubhub, Capital One, and recent startups. He favors breadth over narrow specialization, quickly learning new domains while applying rigorous engineering judgment informed by an MS in Computer Engineering and early chip/microarchitecture work at Sun and Intel. Notably, he prefers to keep his career rooted in the Boston area and separates personal open-source activity from his professional GitHub contributions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityB.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French
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Github Skills (15)
ruby-application7
ruby5
markdown5
macos4
gal4
rubygems4
exchange3
dependency-manager3
bundler3
authentication2
xml2
akamai2
slack-bot1
slack1
scheme1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fraterrisus/walkthroughs
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Guides and walkthroughs for 1990s-era CRPGs
Contributions:12 PRs, 134 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 8 months
crpgwalkthroughs
fraterrisus/piwigo-client-ruby
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
A ruby-based command-line client for Piwigo.
Contributions:6 PRs, 35 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
rubypiwigocommand-based
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