Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems, API Designer
Ben Katz
I build the systems behind the product - resilient services, clean APIs, and data layers that scale under load.
About me
I'm a backend engineer focused on reliability and clean system design. I like services that are boring in the best way - predictable, observable, and fast.
Most of my work is in Go and Node with Postgres and queues, designing APIs and the infrastructure around them.
I care about correctness, performance budgets, and making on-call uneventful.
- Services at scale
- Clean API design
- Observability first
- Go • Node • Postgres
Tools I build with
The technologies and tools behind my work.
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Things I've shipped
A selection of work I'm proud of - from idea to working result.
What I'm building right now
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Experience & Education
My professional and academic journey so far.
Backend Engineer
Scale Inc.
Full-time · Remote
- Designed and shipped core services handling millions of daily requests.
- Cut p99 latency by 35% through query and caching work.
Let's build something
Open to new roles and interesting collaborations. Drop a message.