# Benjamin Pankow

> Software Engineer at Dagster Labs

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benjaminpankow

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Dagster Labs
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Working on the platform for your data platform

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Engineering Ethics (Fall '20) & Software Design Studio (Spring '21)

### Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Algorithms

### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Combinatorics research with Prof. Alexander Yong

### Software Engineering Intern @ Plaid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Infrastructure
Purposefully breaking our Kubernetes clusters with chaos testing

### Software Engineering Intern @ Quora
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
Internationalization Team
I18n-aware feature flagging system & framework-building for multi-language content

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California
Core Health Android Team
Tooling to track memory allocations, analyze heap dumps, and help developers locate memory leaks


## Education
### Master of Computer Science - MCS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics, Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### High School Diploma
Eagan High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benpankow

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Last updated: 2026-03-20