Benjamin Kanouse
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kanouse is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and performance optimization, now contributing at Cisco Meraki. He has led teams up to 20 engineers and driven large-scale systems—most notably a multi-terabyte analytics platform handling tens of millions of daily page views and a profitable space-booking product from concept to launch. A disciplined advocate of test-driven development and agile practices, he repeatedly improved scalability and reduced downtime through hands-on incident leadership and migrations from Heroku to Kubernetes on AWS. His background in computational and applied mathematics underpins a data-driven approach to engineering, including building ETL pipelines and statistical analyses earlier in his career. He also writes about engineering on his personal blog and maintains an online resume, reflecting a habit of documenting technical decisions and processes.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Data Science and Analytics, Graduate Certificate Data Science and Analytics at Buffalo State University
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Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BenKanouse/pg_scanner_sweep
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
A PostgreSQL monitoring tool
Contributions:54 commits, 44 PRs, 53 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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BenKanouse/blog
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
A Blog by Ben
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 9 months
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