Benjamin Cohen
Platform & Systems Engineer — Go, Docker, CI/CD
Experience
Senior Platform Engineer — Northwind Systems
2023 – present
- Built Turbine, a health-gated deploy orchestrator: deploys cut from 25 to 4 minutes, rollbacks fully automated.
- Rebuilt CI with a content-addressed cache: median pipeline 14 → 3 minutes at 87% hit rate.
- Own the internal Go service template: graceful shutdown, structured logging, strict CSP by default.
Systems Engineer — Halide Labs
2020 – 2023
- Shipped Ferrite, a 900KB static log shipper for ARM edge devices; zero silent data loss over 8 months.
- Introduced build-once-promote-artifact delivery; environment drift class of incidents eliminated.
- Ran game-days weekly; wrote the runbook culture the team still uses.
Skills
Languages: Go, SQL, shell. Infra: Docker, Caddy, systemd, DigitalOcean. Practices: SLOs, incident response, CI/CD design, threat modeling.
Education
B.S. Computer Science, 2020.