Benjamin Sammons
Engineering Manager at Zapier
O’Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sammons is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building scalable developer tools and authentication platforms, now leading engineering at Zapier. He founded Wasabi, an internal GenAI CLI at Amazon adopted by over 12,000 engineers that routinely improved developer productivity before broader MCP tooling existed. Benjamin has driven projects that delivered $75M+ in annual impact through productivity and retention gains, and led high-priority migrations that stabilized 10K+ daily logins while cutting failures by thousands per month. He blends hands-on architecture and coding with people leadership, serving as a post-mortem bar raiser and coach who focuses on measurable outcomes. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Node.js and TypeScript to C# and Scala—he has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions in startups, government, and big tech. Outside of engineering metrics, he’s known as a real person who cares about his teams and the craft of shipping useful software.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
3,181reputation
472kreached
114answers
12questions
Github Skills (133)
sql-client10
postgresql10
db210
erd10
visual-studio10
javascript10
nosql10
editor10
dbeaver10
sql10
database10
sqlite10
database-access10
electron10
mysql10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Sammons/vertically-typed
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Sammons/devrecord
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:237 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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