Benjamin Esham
Senior Engineer at GEICO
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Esham is a Senior Engineer with 13 years of experience building iOS, web, CLI, and desktop applications across diverse frameworks and languages. He has shipped production software in both creative and enterprise settings—from Lucasfilm's IS teams to healthcare-focused VisualDx and now GEICO—bridging product needs with pragmatic engineering. Trained in physics and mathematics (M.S. Physics, B.A. Math), he brings a quantitative mindset to system design and debugging, often surfacing roots of problems others miss. Comfortable across full-stack and platform boundaries, he has a track record of adapting to domain-specific constraints and rapidly delivering reliable tooling. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs a research-born curiosity with hands-on product delivery, favoring clear, maintainable solutions over technical novelty for its own sake.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics Physics minor in Chemistry, B.A. Mathematics Physics minor in Chemistry at Alfred UniversityM.S. Physics, M.S. Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bdesham/chrome-export
Apr 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 52 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years
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bdesham/hitting-set
Aug 2012 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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