Ben Cwik
Chief Technology Officer at Buster
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cwik is a pragmatic technology leader and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web products and data systems, currently serving as CTO of Buster in New York City. He joined Buster as the first in-house engineer and has led core platform work from pricing and booking tools to SEO, analytics, Stripe payments, and affiliate tracking—bridging product, ops, and non-technical stakeholders. Previously he improved performance and maintainability of critical financial data pipelines at FactSet, blending Ruby and C++ with parallelization to double update speed. An autodidact full‑stack enthusiast, he pairs modern Rails and AWS expertise with a knack for automation and UX improvements, and outside of work pursues photography, cooking, motorcycling and IoT tinkering—often photographing the results.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of MarylandPoolesville High School
English
Github Skills (41)
dashboard10
trading10
tricks10
docker-compose9
home-assistant9
qr-code9
docker8
ruby-on-rails8
api-documentation8
docker-container8
rtmp8
portainer8
camera8
rtsp8
xapi8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bcwik9/sport-import
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
Rails service which returns player information as JSON
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 4 months
returnsplayer-informationrailsrubyjson
bcwik9/ScriptsNStuff
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
Random collection of incomplete projects, thoughts and ideas. Think of it as a sandbox
Contributions:239 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
random-collectionthinksandboxthoughts
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