Ben Podgursky
Head Of Engineering at Orchid
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBen Podgursky is a Head of Engineering with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, currently shaping fertility-tech infrastructure at Orchid. He has repeatedly led teams through high-stakes migrations and cost-optimization projects, including moving a 2,500+ node Hadoop cluster into Google Cloud within a year and designing autoscaling that saved millions annually. Ben combines hands-on systems engineering—authoring pipeline engines, a Golang smart-client, and open-source datastore work—with product-minded leadership across data, ML, and full-stack teams. He’s comfortable both inventing developer tooling at startups (co-founding CloudWright) and running mission-critical infrastructure at enterprise scale. Based in Seattle, he’s focused on making serverless cloud computing accessible to builders while retaining deep operational fluency in distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (135)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bpodgursky/uncharted
Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:146 commits, 6 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 years 4 months
webglsolarjavascriptneighborhoodthreejs
LiveRamp/generative
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
Tools for generative and property based testing in java.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 10 months
property-based-testingtestingjavagenerative
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