Benjamin Cronin
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cronin is a seasoned software founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, most notably as co-founder and COO of Lightstep (acquired by ServiceNow) where he helped shape what became the OpenTelemetry standard. He blends deep technical chops—from real-time graphics and GPU work at Autodesk to full-stack contributions in open-source projects like opentracing-js—with hands-on operational leadership across product, people, and fundraising. Benjamin excels at translating complex production observability challenges into practical, high-impact products and organizational structures. Based in Bend, Oregon and Princeton-trained in computer science, he brings a rare mix of mathematical rigor, systems-level thinking, and low-ego collaboration that thrives on mentoring teams and solving hard engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Computer Science, B.S.E., Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
eslint10
documentation10
api-design9
nodejs9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opentracing/opentracing-javascript
May 2016 - Mar 2018
OpenTracing API for Javascript (both Node and browser). 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 50 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the API documentation with the integration of ESDoc. They added support for documentation generation and improved the clarity of the code by updating comments. Furthermore, the user improved the consistency of code style through the application of ESLint rules. Additionally, the user added functionality to the Tracer class and improved existing methods.
javascriptopentracing
resonancelabs/resonancelabs.github.io
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:192 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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