Ben Kaufman
Lead Software Engineer at Molten Cloud
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kaufman is a Lead Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with eight years of experience building scalable backend systems and data services, currently driving engineering at Molten Cloud. He combines a CS degree with economics and statistics training, applying rigorous quantitative thinking to system design and data-driven feature work. Proficient across Python, Java/Scala, Flask, Postgres/Greenplum and AWS, he has hands-on experience shipping streaming and storage solutions and automating deployment pipelines. Earlier roles include building capacity-forecasting and S3-based data streaming platforms and research work at the National Bureau of Economic Research, reflecting a blend of product-facing engineering and analytical rigor. Outside work he’s an avid systems tinkerer (his GitHub contains eclectic coding and math projects) and brings a practical, curious approach to messy, real-world codebases.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Lafayette College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
taskbar10
inno-setup10
windows8
gnome5
gtk4
macos3
linux3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
markyb86/Mac-OS-9-Classic-XFCEfixes
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
The classic look of Mac OS 9, now for GTK 3 desktops
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 11 pushes in 1 day
lookmac-oslinuxgnomegtk-3
markyb86/SevenIcons
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes in 10 days
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