Ben Kalman
Game Audio at Freelance
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kalman is a multidisciplinary technologist and game audio designer based in Sydney with 16 years of professional experience, combining a long software engineering pedigree with current creative work in sound design. He spent over a decade in backend and systems roles—including Staff Software Engineer at Google, engineering at Attic Labs where he contributed to the versioned, forkable noms database, and architectural work at Quip—bringing deep expertise in distributed systems and test infrastructure. Now focused on game audio and freelance projects, he blends technical rigor with artistic practice, applying engineering practices to audio tooling and interactive experiences. His background in building syncable data stores and modern async testing indicates a pragmatic approach to complex problems and a comfort shipping both low-level systems and user-facing features. Outside traditional roles he maintains public artifacts like an online resume and portfolio, signaling a habit of documenting and sharing work.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (8)
data-structures10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
data-structure10
testing10
algorithms9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
attic-labs/noms
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
The versioned, forkable, syncable database
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:281 commits, 274 PRs, 124 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on the backend implementation of the noms project. They removed legacy testing components and updated the testing infrastructure to use modern async test patterns. They also worked on implementing various features and improvements to the database system, including creating the noms-view and splore-view components for interactive exploration of the data and integrating new features like set and map diff capabilities. Additionally, they updated various test components.
database
kalman/kalman.github.com
Apr 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 8 months
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