Benjamin Bardin
Engineering Manager at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bardin is an engineering manager in New York with 15 years of experience building and scaling full‑stack and backend systems. He moved from hands‑on roles at Google and AltSchool—where he led CI/CD adoption and cut cloud costs by 70%—to senior engineering at Oscar Health and now managers at Cockroach Labs, bringing deep distributed-systems and database expertise. At Cockroach he contributed directly to CockroachDB import, backup, and job diagnostics features, blending product leadership with low-level database engineering. He is comfortable shifting between people leadership and technical refactors, mentoring teams while shipping performance and reliability improvements. Known for driving measurable operational wins, he pairs Columbia-trained CS/math foundations with a track record of turning complex infrastructure work into product impact.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of the Arts Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of the Arts Computer Science Mathematics at Columbia University
Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (9)
databases10
backup10
go10
distributed-database10
cockroachdb10
relational-databases10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:284 reviews, 37 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the CockroachDB project by implementing and refining database import functionalities, enhancing the system's ability to handle large datasets. Their work included optimizing file readability checks for data imports and fixing a critical regression on the jobs details page. The user also refactored internal modules and fixed backup functionalities.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
haldean/droidcopter
Jul 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:132 commits in 2 years 7 months
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