Ben Rucker is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently building distributed systems at Palantir in Palo Alto. He blends professional engineering with an active habit of personal projects, having taught undergraduates Python, git, and data visualization with geopandas while serving as a TA. His background spans tooling and automationālaunching GitLab feature adoption, building a license-management system that cut costs dramatically, and operating remote robotics diagnostics. Comfortable across backend stacks (Python, JS, SQL, PHP) and command-line environments, he brings practical savings-minded solutions as well as operational rigor. Colleagues know him as a persistent problem-solver who pairs technical depth with a knack for clear documentation and knowledge-sharing.
11 years of coding experience
University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
Contributions:6 PRs, 100 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
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Ben Rucker - Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies