Ben Sussman
Board Member at Quill.org
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Sussman is a staff software engineer and board member with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems that translate complex data into reliable user experiences. He’s been an early engineer at ML infrastructure startup Spell, led infrastructure and service-oriented transitions at Zocdoc, and built patient identity, tax, and payment systems at Pomelo Care, Stripe, and Betterment. Comfortable across Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, and C#, Ben specializes in cross-cloud orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, Dagster/dbt pipelines, and FHIR-driven healthcare integrations. He’s a proven force multiplier who raises release velocity through testing, CI/CD, and developer experience improvements while mentoring teams to ship robust production software. As a mission-driven technologist, he also serves on the board of Quill.org, applying ML and product thinking to improve literacy for millions of students. Notably, he combines deep domain expertise in compliant ledgers and automated tax logic with practical ML deployment experience that spans research to reproducible production workflows.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (176)
python10
cryptocurrency10
scheduling10
p2p10
mesos10
kubernetes10
bitcoin10
authenticate10
circle10
go10
docker10
kubernetes-monitoring10
cryptography10
portable9
autoencoder9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
joinpursuit/jsworkshop
May 2016 - Jun 2019
Javascript workshop for prospective AccessCode students to learn JS, and help C4Q decide which students will be most likely to succeed in the intensive course
Contributions:130 commits, 18 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 years 2 months
learn-jsworkshopjavascriptintensiveajax
spellml/goofys
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
unicornsawsutilitiesfile-systemish
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