Benjamin Kincaid
Platform Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kincaid is a Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure for fin-tech and research-driven projects. Based in Boston, he has led migrations and rearchitecting efforts across AWS and GCP—using Terraform, CI/CD, and container platforms—to improve scalability and performance for products ranging from machine-learning pipelines to social apps. His work includes benchmarking datastores for CBDC research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and converting core algorithms into production-ready Python microservices, demonstrating a blend of research-focused rigor and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex infrastructure needs into repeatable, IaC-driven platforms that minimize downtime during large data migrations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St. John's PrepBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (59)
tower10
container-cop10
sdk10
deploying9
scaffolding9
tooling9
ansible9
s2i9
operator9
infrastructure9
openshift8
ledger8
blockchain8
bitcoin8
infrastructure-management8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mit-dci/terraform-aws-opencbdc-tctl
May 2022 - Nov 2022
terraform infrastructure for opencbdc-tctl
Contributions:16 reviews, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 months
bvkin/trade_bot
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Bot to automatically manage a stock portfolio
Contributions:7 reviews, 42 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 months
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