Benjamin Yolken
Software Engineer at Stainless
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Yolken is a software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend and infrastructure systems, currently based in New York. He excels at service-oriented architectures, containerization, and service networking, with a strong track record optimizing performance and developer experience across startups and major platforms like Stripe, Airbnb, Twitter, and Segment. His work ranges from building task runtimes and Kubernetes infrastructure to multi-region deployments and open-sourcing tooling for Kafka management, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and product sensibility. Trained as a PhD in Operations Research, he brings mathematical modeling, optimization, and economics to practical systems problems—helping teams make data-driven tradeoffs in reliability, cost, and performance. Notably, he has led cross-company infrastructure initiatives and rebuilt core data pipelines and developer tooling that improved operability at scale.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
SB, Engineering Sciences, SB, Engineering Sciences at Harvard UniversityPhD, Operations Research, PhD, Operations Research at Stanford University
Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yolken/yolken-blog
May 2019 - Mar 2024
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Contributions:67 PRs, 321 pushes, 83 branches in 4 years 10 months
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