Benjamin Staffin
Senior Software Engineer at SingleStore
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Staffin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with 14 years of experience building reliable, production-grade infrastructure and developer tooling across companies from Google to Postmates and SingleStore. He combines deep SRE and DevOps expertise—ranging from large-scale monitoring and book-scanning pipelines at Google to CI/CD, Debian packaging and cluster infrastructure—with hands-on build and release engineering work in prominent open-source projects like Bazel and Jsonnet. Known for practical improvements that reduce build bloat and streamline packaging (including .deb generation and optimized py_binary outputs), he brings a pragmatic focus on reproducible builds and deployment automation. Colleagues rely on him to bridge the gap between developer experience and operational robustness, and he often surfaces subtle efficiencies in build systems and CI jobs that save time across teams.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
python10
debian10
packaging10
configuration-management10
build-system10
cicd10
automation10
configuration-file10
jsonnet10
bazel10
build-automation10
yaml10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
configurations10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
google/jsonnet
Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
Jsonnet - The data templating language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the project by implementing and fixing Python build processes and Bazel rules. They addressed build errors, updated dependencies, and ensured Python module integration. Furthermore, the user implemented verbatim string literals and modified code related to documentation, improving the overall codebase.
jsonnettemplatingconfigurationconfigjson
openstack-infra/jenkins-job-builder
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
MOVED: Now at https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the configuration and enhancement of the `jenkins-job-builder` project, focusing on enabling integrations with various Jenkins plugins. Their work included adding support for the Slave Utilization and S3 Publisher plugins, and extending features of existing plugins, such as Gerrit. They also made minor adjustments, like a spelling correction, and implemented a job property for `display-name`.
jenkins
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