Ben Berman

Software engineer · technical founder

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Résumé

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2 of 6 roles touched AWS.

Experience

2024–now

Co-founder, Executive Software Lead

DigiChem · New York

Co-founded a chemical synthesis startup with two chemists
Raised a seed round with MVP
Lead / mentored a team of three engineers
Heavy involvement with strategy, market research, investor relations etc.
Product: a custom ERP/MRP for novel specialty chemical synthesis and optimization
LLM-powered workflows used cheminformatics tools such as retrosynthesis, property prediction, and vendor price lists to propose and optimize synthetic routes

Aug 2024 – present

TypeScript React Router Prisma DBOS SQL Railway AWS ×GitHub Actions Graphite

2015–2016

Software Engineer / Lead Engineer

A Plus · New York

Joined a team of 6
As the company dwindled, became lead and only engineer, running the entire site's engineering

Jun 2015 – Dec 2016

Ruby JavaScript Ruby on Rails React AWS ×

Education & skills

2011–2014

Washington University in St. Louis

BS, Computer Science

Minor in Design.

Skills

Software DesignRoboticsC++TypeScript Rust

patches

I technically made these contributions to these projects.
Almost all meaningless, but, hey, I've been interested in cool stuff for a long time!

2019

actix/actix — Add futures::{future, Stream} to actix::prelude::*

2019

actix/actix — Add implementations for Message for Arc and Box

2018

rust-lang/rust — Amend option.take examples

2018

yewstack/yew — Add mount points

2018

nlohmann/json — Better error 305

2018

amethyst/amethyst — Put in a better example for Component in the book

2018

Vincit/objection.js — Overview for API#models and tabbed-example component

2017

yewstack/yew — Add many console methods

2017

serverless/serverless — Add missing apostrophe

2016

yarnpkg/yarn — Meaningful error message on malformed registry response

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