Ben Plotnick
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Plotnick is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems across companies like Netflix, Humane, Cruise, Yelp, and SIG. He combines deep systems and low-latency expertise from trading and aerospace backgrounds with platform and manager-level experience accelerating autonomous vehicle development and modernizing service architectures. At SIG he led a 10x elastic scaling migration to AWS, and at Yelp drove adoption of distributed tracing and clientside RPC features that improved observability and fault isolation. Comfortable shipping both infrastructure and developer-facing tooling, he excels at turning performance bottlenecks into scalable, production-ready solutions. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic engineering style that balances rigorous measurement with fast iteration and cross-functional collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Shawnee High SchoolMSE, Electrical Engineering, MSE, Electrical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (157)
python10
cookiecutter10
proxy10
cloud-native10
graph10
yelp10
h5py10
command-line-utility10
binary-data10
hdf10
zipkin10
proxies9
scalable9
uwsgi9
terraform9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bplotnick/envoy
May 2018 - Jun 2026
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:95 pushes, 23 branches in 8 years 2 months
cppservice-proxyproxy
bplotnick/envoy_examples
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Some end-to-end envoy examples
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
end-to-endenvoy
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