Benjamin Dye
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Dye is a software engineer based in New York with six years of experience building full-stack web applications and contributing to notable open-source projects. He has made front-end-focused contributions to Amundsen—an influential metadata application—improving React components, search filters, and homepage refactors while also touching backend upgrades for data builders. Trained in law (J.D. from Columbia) after a BA from UC Berkeley, he brings unusual cross-disciplinary thinking to technical problems, blending analytical rigor with practical engineering. Comfortable iterating on UX-facing features and backend integrations alike, he favors shipping maintainable, well-tested code that helps data teams be more productive.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of California, BerkeleyJ.D., J.D. at Columbia Law School
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types9
amd9
typescript9
typescripts9
data-catalog8
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsen
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 4 commits, 38 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily worked on the frontend of the Amundsen project, focusing on React components and related testing. They fixed styling and functionality issues within the search filter and resource selector features. Additionally, the user contributed to refactoring homepage components to prepare for the implementation of configurable widgets. Furthermore, the user made changes related to the backend data builder by upgrading the amundsen-rds and databuilder versions.
scientistspythondatadata-scienceanalysts
B-T-D/datespot-suggester
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Conceptual prototype for a dating app API that suggests date locations to users.
Contributions:30 PRs, 207 pushes, 38 branches in 4 months
apidating-appprototypelocationstypescript
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