Ben Radler
Senior Software Engineer at Cruise
Oceanside, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Radler is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining reliable back-end systems across startups and large tech companies, currently at Cruise in Oceanside, California. His career includes senior engineering roles at Lyft and OneLogin, an engineering management stint at Teespring, and CTO experience at Boombotix, reflecting both leadership and hands-on technical depth. He contributes to open source—most notably improving the ruby-saml toolkit by refactoring methods, tightening tests, and preventing namespace collisions—demonstrating a focus on maintainability and stability. Ben blends product-minded engineering from running Radler Designs with enterprise-scale service design, shipping pragmatic solutions that scale. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and durable under ambiguity, able to translate messy requirements into well-tested code. Outside of work he brings a playful creative streak—aptly hinted at by his GitHub bio’s “three eyed cape wearing critter”—that surfaces in thoughtful, unconventional problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business
Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
saml10
ruby10
security9
xmlsec9
xml9
versioning7
version-control7
management7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
SAML SSO for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 53 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on updating and refactoring method naming and specifications within the Ruby SAML toolkit. They modified test files to align with these changes, ensuring existing functionality was maintained. Furthermore, the user addressed potential namespace collisions and updated the version number, contributing to the project's maintainability and stability. These contributions demonstrate a focus on code quality and project updates.
rubysaml
boombotix/spree_google_merchant
May 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 9 months
ecommercerubyecommerce-platformgemspree-ecommerce
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