Benjamin Chadwick
Senior Cloud Engineer at Medidata Solutions
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Chadwick is a Senior Cloud Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience bridging development and operations as a full‑stack DevOps generalist. He has led engineering and DevOps efforts at Medidata Solutions and previously built enterprise application features at State Street’s International Fund Services, demonstrating steady progression from web and support roles into cloud leadership. An active contributor to open-source cloud tooling, he extended AWS RDS IOPS support in the widely used Fog Ruby library, reflecting a focus on performance tuning and pragmatic infrastructure integrations. His background uniquely blends technical depth with humanities training (MFA and a BA in Archaeology), which informs a thoughtful, systems‑level approach to problem solving and documentation.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Master of Fine Arts, Master’s Degree, Master of Fine Arts at George Mason UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Archaeology, Bachelor’s Degree, Archaeology at University of Virginia
English, Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian
Github Skills (6)
aws10
rds10
ruby10
cloud-computing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Fog Ruby cloud services library by extending support for IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) within the AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) integration. Their work involved modifying several files to incorporate IOPS configurations across various RDS functionalities, including creating, modifying, and snapshotting database instances and read replicas. This indicates a focus on enhancing the library's capabilities for managing and interacting with AWS RDS resources, specifically related to performance tuning and configuration.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
20goto10/wackyponies
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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