Benjamin Shai
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Shai is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building systems at Google from his base in New York. He previously led a team at Conductor where he architected Java 8 microservices and Kafka-backed data pipelines on AWS to transform massive datasets into actionable reports. Comfortable across backend stacks—from Spring and Java to Perl/SQL and C#—he has a track record of shipping pragmatic, extensible solutions and mentoring peers. Early roles range from finance technology at Goldman Sachs to hands-on tooling and automation in smaller orgs, showing adaptability to both regulated and fast-moving environments. He combines a love of logic puzzles and continuous learning with a practical focus on observability and elegant architecture. Outside work he’s engaged with developer tooling and open-source-minded engineering practices, reflecting an inclination to give back to the community.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Sciences, B.A. Computer Sciences at Yeshiva University, Yeshiva CollegeWeinbaum Yeshiva HIgh School
Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
java10
http-client10
jax-rs10
slf4j10
rest9
feign9
stream9
http8
backbone6
redirect6
closures6
asp-net6
metaprogramming6
htaccess6
wordpress6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benmanbs/CouragersAndroid
Aug 2015 - Jul 2018
Android app for the Kids of Courage Adventure trip.
Contributions:6 PRs, 42 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
androidkidsandroid-appkotlinandroid-application
Conductor/stream-utils
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
A collection of utilities for Java 8 Streams
Contributions:3 releases, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 3 months
javajava-8streamsstream
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