Benjamin Chrobot
Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer at OpenEvidence
New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Chrobot is a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems and developer workflows from the cloud edge to mobile. Based in New York, he has led infrastructure and SRE efforts—designing GitOps/Terraform/ArgoCD pipelines, API gateways, and CI/CD trust boundaries—while managing SOC 2 compliance and incident response programs for production services. He pairs hands-on performance tuning (including an 80% reduction in critical SQL runtime enabling billions of contacts) with product leadership across React/GraphQL/Node stacks and mobile iOS contributions. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved popular Swift networking tooling (Moya) and contributed front-end UX and messaging features to civic tech projects. Motivated by climate and social impact, he blends engineering rigor with mission-driven product outcomes and experience delivering bioinformatics tools and volunteer-driven environmental apps.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
reactivecocoa10
swift10
javascript10
rxswift10
material-ui10
react10
networking9
ui-design9
unit-testing9
sms-messages8
sms8
bash6
perl6
grep6
sed6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
StateVoicesNational/Spoke
May 2018 - Feb 2019
mass-contact text/SMS distribution tool
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 26 PRs, 106 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the front-end of the "spoke" application, a mass-contact text/SMS distribution tool. Their work focused on updating UI elements, specifically within the `IncomingMessageFilter` and `IncomingMessageList` components. This included modifying the display of conversation statuses, implementing a modal for message previews, and adding reply functionality. They also made minor UI improvements such as spacing and fixing styles.
marketing-toolsreactthinkytwiliorethinkdb
Moya/Moya
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Moya project by implementing and enhancing string mapping functionality for network responses. They added the `mapString(atKeyPath:)` method across multiple files, including ReactiveCocoa, RxSwift, and Response files, and wrote tests to validate this feature. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo, added documentation, and refactored the `mapString()` and `mapString(atKeyPath:)` methods into a single method.
networkingrxswiftreactiveswiftswiftabstraction-layer
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