Summary
Ben 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 Amherst
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Lafayette College
English, Spanish