Ben Sykes
Software Engineer 6 at Netflix
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Sykes is a seasoned software architect and engineer with 11+ years building large-scale, production systems—from cloud-native streaming delivery at Netflix to industrial digital twin platforms at GE. He combines deep systems and networking knowledge (IP, Ethernet, DNS, VoIP) with hands-on full-stack skills in Node.js, Java, React and data platforms like Hadoop, Cassandra and Redis to deliver reliable, automated pipelines and realtime analytics. At Netflix he designs client delivery and realtime metrics pipelines processing hundreds of billions of events daily, and previously drove CI/CD automation, education programs, and measurable developer productivity gains at GE. A pragmatic advocate for automation and continuous improvement, he balances engineering fidelity with time-to-market while coaching teams to raise their craft. An active open-source contributor to the core gRPC project, he’s improved proxy/DNS handling and modernized codepaths—showing comfort contributing to critical infrastructure. Based in California with a First Class BEng in Computer Engineering, he takes pride in enabling others to succeed while shipping high-quality systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, First Class with Honors, BEng, Computer Engineering, First Class with Honors at Sheffield Hallam University
German
Github Skills (14)
c1710
dns10
c1110
grpc10
resol10
dns-resolver10
proxy-pac9
http-proxy9
environment-variables9
proxy9
web-proxy9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
nodejs7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc
Jul 2017 - May 2018
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the core functionality of the gRPC project, focusing on areas such as proxy handling and DNS resolution. Their work included implementing checks for the `no_proxy` environment variable to enhance proxy behavior. Further contributions involved code improvements to utilize `Buffer.from` for avoiding deprecated constructors, along with resolving merge conflicts and improving various internal core components.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
PredixDev/predix-acs-client
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Node module to check with ACS for authorization to perform an action
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
authorizationnode-moduleauthenticationacsnodejs
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