Ben Demott
Contractor at Self-Employed
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Demott is a seasoned software engineer and data architect with 13 years of experience building backend systems and large-scale data platforms for aerospace, government, and commercial clients. He specializes in Python and C++ development, distributed query engines (Trino), and integrating heterogeneous data ecosystems including Spark, Airflow, Postgres, Hadoop, and various cloud and on-prem stores. Ben has a practical knack for debugging deep, system-level issues—he has tracked down Trino authorization and parsing bugs and even wrote custom tooling to compare SQL plans across versions. As a contractor and former enterprise architect, he combines hands-on coding with designing configuration-driven microservice backends and data pipelines that reduce redundancy and save terabytes of data movement. Based in Colorado Springs, he brings a "do anything it takes" mentality, often writing bespoke software to unblock deployments or protect client IP via compiled C++ tools. His background spans search relevancy, realtime event systems, and modernizing legacy ETL into maintainable, performant data architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,484reputation
382kreached
58answers
25questions
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Github Skills (105)
python10
trading10
databases10
cryptocurrency10
gssapi10
crypto10
hashicorp-vault10
hashicorp10
spnego10
exchange10
api10
sql10
vault10
database10
bitcoin10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bendemott/solr-zkutil
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Solr Cloud and ZooKeeper CLI
Contributions:64 commits, 6 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 3 months
clisolrcloudzookeeper
bendemott/txrest
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 month
xmlpythonjsonrest
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