Ben Lafferty
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Lafferty is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with eight years building distributed backends and AI/ML systems, currently leading platform work at Shopify. He brings hands-on experience across the full stack—from high-performance Go services and CLI tooling to web servers—demonstrated by his goclone project where he refactored parsing, integrated Cobra, and added an Echo-based webserver. His career spans rapid-growth startups and large-scale product engineering, holding progressive engineering roles at Shopify, PaySplit, and Rover. Known for improving reliability and developer ergonomics, he combines deep systems thinking with pragmatic delivery and a knack for reshaping messy legacy flows into testable, maintainable code.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Dominican University of California
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Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
goclone-dev/goclone
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Website Cloner - Utilizes powerful Go routines to clone websites to your computer within seconds.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on refactoring and improving the website cloner's functionality. They implemented and refactored file parsing, specifically for filenames, and reorganized HTML structure for better organization. Key contributions include managing and restructuring HTML elements (CSS, JS, and images) and integrating a web server to serve the cloned website. The user also introduced and integrated Cobra for command-line interface management and initiated the inclusion of a webserver using the Echo framework.
goroutinegolanggocloningcrawler
tempor1s/msconsole
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Suite of tools that makes your school life easier!
Contributions:9 releases, 42 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
makeschoolsuitelifegolangcli
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