Benjamin Atkins
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Cosign
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Atkins is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and modernizing web applications across Ruby/Rails, React, and cloud-backed data stacks. He has a strong track record leading end-to-end feature delivery and removing legacy blockers to accelerate product modernization at companies like Medidata and Code Climate. As an engineering lead and former CTO/co-founder, he blends hands-on implementation with product-minded architecture and team mentorship. He contributes to open source—having fixed core versioning and database-scoping issues in the widely used PaperTrail gem—bringing attention to correctness and edge-case state leaks. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he excels at bridging product needs and technical execution for scalable, test-covered systems. He’s known for practical, incrementally modernizing legacy codebases while keeping teams shipping reliably.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Digital Arts, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Digital Arts at Union CollegeBeaver Country Day SchoolYork St. John University
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
databases10
ruby-rails10
rails10
versioning10
querying10
database10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paper-trail-gem/paper_trail
Nov 2013 - Dec 2016
Track changes to your rails models
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1 review, 332 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the PaperTrail gem's core functionality, addressing issues related to versioning, database interactions, and scope methods. Their work included fixing typos, explicitly specifying table names for scope methods, and addressing state leak issues. The user made significant changes to the code, specifically in the areas of versioning and database querying, and also touched on testing and debugging.
railsrubyactiverecordaudit
batter/ruby-roda-boilerplate
Sep 2016 - Sep 2025
Simple Roda boilerplate with HAML and SASS
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
hamlsass
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