Ben Raskin
Programmer at Orthodox Union
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Raskin is a seasoned programmer and technical leader with 35+ years of data processing experience and a strong track record modernizing critical financial systems and small business applications. He has driven full life-cycle development—from mainframe migrations and database design to GUI front ends and multilingual automation—delivering measurable cost savings and efficiency gains, including a $1.5M annual reduction after migrating a major interest system. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and as a project executive, he has led and mentored global teams across New York and India while aligning IT delivery with business outcomes. Currently supporting accounting and kosher certification systems at Orthodox Union, he blends a philosophy of simplicity, reusability and conformity with an artisanal approach to design that treats each user solution as a “masterpiece.” Known for translating complex financial requirements into practical, auditable systems, he brings rare continuity across legacy mainframe and modern distributed environments.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (50)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
aggregator10
graphite10
sidecar10
paxos10
prometheus10
promql10
monorepo10
query-engine10
raft10
prometheus-exporter9
system-monitoring9
time-series9
graphing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
m3dbx/prometheus_remote_client_golang
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
A Prometheus remote write client written in Go
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
golangprometheus-exporterprometheusremote-writemonitoring
benraskin92/personal_site
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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