Ben Webb
Senior Software Engineer at Sunrun
United States
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Top SchoolBen Webb is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, currently at Sunrun after a five-year tenure at Rally Health. He designs robust, stateful services and data transformation pipelines using Scala, Spark, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, S3, and Airflow, and has architected petabyte-scale deletion workflows for regulatory and governance needs. Ben has led and mentored small engineering teams, driven adoption of shared infrastructure like schema registries and Kafka proxies, and maintained CI/CD and build tooling to keep complex systems reliable. His background in data engineering consulting exposed him to migrating warehouses and scaling transformation jobs across diverse domains, from finance to insurance and healthcare. Trained in economics at the University of Chicago, he brings analytical rigor to engineering tradeoffs and a pragmatic focus on operational resilience. Notably, he pairs deep backend expertise with a hands-on approach to incident response and service scalability rather than purely theoretical design.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (29)
linux10
toml10
ranger10
clipboard10
nix9
ncurses9
tui9
nixos9
browser9
file-manager9
rust8
concurrency8
dmenu8
nixpkgs8
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminedwardwebb/NMC-demo
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
benjaminedwardwebb/nixpkgs
Nov 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
nixosnix-packages
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