Benjamin Long
Senior Software Engineer II at °Nomad Health
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Long is a Senior Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex web applications, currently driving product and engineering execution at Nomad Health. He brings deep full-stack expertise in Ruby, Rails, Python, JavaScript, AngularJS and relational databases, plus mobile/Android experience and strong OOP foundations. Benjamin has progressed from research engineering and lab management into senior and staff engineering roles, combining technical delivery with mentorship in Scrum and project management. He is especially effective translating stakeholder deadlines into shippable components and mentoring junior developers to scale team capability. Based in Durham, NC, he blends a rare biomechanics research background (MS in Biomechanics) with practical software leadership, giving him a data-driven, systems-minded approach to product development.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Exercise Science, BS, Exercise Science at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleMS, Biomechanics, MS, Biomechanics at East Carolina University
Github Skills (49)
nginx-module8
lightstep8
cockroachdb7
opentracing7
jaegertracing7
php7
api7
k8s-operator7
jaeger6
distributed-tracing6
kubernetes6
operator5
slug5
nginx5
lru5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blong14/compute-cluster
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Personal compute cluster
Contributions:4 reviews, 187 PRs, 438 pushes in 3 years 8 months
cockroachdbkubernetescockroachdb-operatorraspberry-pi-3compute
vrcgal/vrcgal_py
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
Python utilities for VRCGAL
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
python-utilitiespython
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