Benjamin Schenker
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Schenker is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling web applications across startups and large tech firms, currently at Datadog after leadership and engineering roles at Trapol8 and Facebook. He excels in taking features from prototype to production within small agile teams, with deep hands-on expertise in Elixir, Postgres, ElasticSearch, React, and JavaScript. Benjamin has a track record of mentoring engineers, establishing code review and hiring practices, and driving migrations that improved performance and customer growth. Comfortable in both product-focused startups and enterprise environments, he combines steady, predictable delivery with attention to operational quality. Outside of work he’s conversational in Spanish and an avid sourdough baker—an indicator of patience and process-oriented curiosity that carries into his engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Github Skills (100)
starter-kit10
certification10
react-table10
excel10
pagination10
javascript10
playing10
filtering10
nodejs10
mongodb10
sorting10
css10
codebase10
math10
grid10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benschenker/benschenker.github.io
Apr 2015 - Aug 2024
Personal Website
Contributions:22 PRs, 83 pushes, 33 branches in 9 years 5 months
react
benschenker/elm-bouncing-box
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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