Ben Sima
Staff Engineer at Parasail
Massillon, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sima is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-heavy products across developer tooling, DevOps, and AI workflows, currently driving platform work at Parasail. He has a strong track record delivering zero-to-one solutions and internal developer experiences—from high-concurrency Haskell data pipelines that handled tens of thousands of leads per minute to hardware-in-the-loop testing and ML workflow libraries at Groq. Ben is comfortable across the stack and languages (Haskell, Clojure, Python, TypeScript), and contributes to open-source projects such as the Yesod web framework where he improved form handling utilities. He combines practical DevOps ownership with product sensibility, documenting and shipping internal systems that empower teams and customers. Based in Massillon, Ohio, he pairs a philosophy BA with deep engineering pragmatism, often surfacing elegant, low-friction solutions in complex data environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Philosophy, Bachelors, Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
yesod10
eforms10
haskell10
lib9
css9
documentation8
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/yesod
May 2018 - May 2018
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `yesod-form` library within the `yesodweb/yesod` repository. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing existing features related to CSS class manipulation within form settings. Specific contributions include moving and exporting 'addClass' and adding 'removeClass' functions, adding documentation, and updating examples. Additionally, they bumped the version number of the project.
haskellrestrestfulweb-framework
bsima/me
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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