About

Ben Katz is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer currently working at DoorDash. He is passionate about writing software, working on scaling challenges, and building consumer-facing products. With almost 10 years of relevant experience, Ben has a proven track record of delivering successful projects and leading teams to achieve their goals. In his current role at DoorDash, Ben serves as the technical lead for the grocery and retail team, where he has led a team of engineers to scale DoorDash's routing engine's throughput by 30x using async processing. This effort directly allowed the company to fulfill a large number of unexpected deliveries for time-sensitive COVID-19 relief efforts as well as holiday demand spikes for major retailers on the DoorDash platform. He also led a team of engineers to build the initial DoorDash Shopper backend, which enabled the launch of several major grocery brands on DoorDash. Prior to his current role, Ben founded ATGATT LLC, where he built all components of the app himself, including the frontend with Vue.js, the background job that aggregates motorcycle crash data in Go, and the API used to retrieve the data in Go. He also conducted all marketing and user research and created a business entity that reached profitability in just three months. Ben's past experience also includes serving as the Lead Software Engineer at Veyo, where he spent 80% of his time writing code to fix critical scaling issues with the system/engineering team, 10% of his time advising various feature teams on architecture-related decisions, and 10% of his time on automation/devops tasks. Ben's technical expertise includes Kotlin, Micronaut, Scala, Kafka, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambda, .NET Core, Node.js, Linux, Azure Container Registry, Azure Service Bus, SQL Server 2017, Angular 5, TypeScript, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra. He is a Senior Software Engineer with a background in SQL, Javascript, AWS, CI/CD, Docker, and DevOps. Overall, Ben is a highly skilled and driven software engineer with a passion for building scalable and consumer-facing products.