Ben Darfler
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Darfler is an engineering leader and civic-minded technologist with 14+ years of experience building scalable systems and high-performing teams across startups and mid-size companies. Currently Director of Engineering at Honeycomb and Deputy Mayor of Trumansburg, he blends product-focused technical leadership—shippping major launches in frontend observability and telemetry—with hands-on backend work, including maintaining an EC2 instance comparison tool. He has a track record of improving observability, deployment velocity, and data integrity at organizations like InVision and Localytics, and he builds organizational practices that scale (OKRs, decision guides, cross-team rituals). A meditator and elected official, he brings steady leadership under pressure and an unusual mix of community governance and deep engineering craft.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityMaster of Engineering Computer Science, Master of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell UniversityLansing High School
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Github Skills (9)
ec10
amazon-ec210
aws10
python10
amazon9
estimate8
cloud-computing7
jvm6
java6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on maintaining and updating the application's data and rendering logic. Their contributions include adding and removing EC2 instance types from the displayed data, reflecting changes in available resources and pricing. The user also removed outdated CPU information, streamlining the data displayed to the user. These changes involved modifications to both the data processing and rendering parts of the application.
ecscost-optimizationec2finopscost-estimation
localytics/sbt-sqs
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
elasticmqsbtsbt-pluginelasticsearch
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