Benjamin Pankow
Member Of Technical Staff at Vercel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Pankow is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and data infrastructure, currently shaping the platform at Dagster Labs in San Francisco. He contributes to the well-known open-source Dagster project, focusing on refactoring data pipelines, pythonic resource patterns, and infrastructure-as-code for production data assets. Benjamin pairs a strong academic foundation in computer science and mathematics from UIUC with practical experience in chaos testing at Plaid and performance tooling at Facebook. He has taught software design and engineering ethics, reflecting a thoughtful approach to scalable system design and developer experience. Colleagues value his blend of data engineering rigor and attention to maintainable platform code that eases production operation of complex data flows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Eagan High School
Github Skills (7)
dagster10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
python10
data-engineering10
configuration-management9
pydantic7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:8 releases, 1308 reviews, 272 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily involve updating and refactoring the data pipeline and infrastructure code within the Dagster ecosystem. The user updated assets and code, including implementing pythonic resources and handling configurations. The changes demonstrate skills in working with data pipelines, data engineering concepts, and infrastructure-as-code principles within the Dagster framework.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
dagster-io/cloud-branch-deployments-action
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 13 PRs in 7 months
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