# Ben Slavin

> Software Engineering Manager at Peloton

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benslavin

## Work Experience
### Software Engineering Manager, Platform @ Peloton Interactive
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Platform Shared Services + Data Foundations

### Director of Backend Development @ 10Spot
Jan 2021 – Present
• Founding backend engineer responsible for all server code development, infrastructure management, alerting and monitoring, and optimizing data latency
• Maintained a 99.999% uptime, ensuring exceptional reliability and performance for all backend services
• Introduced Agile/Scrum practices, including 2-week sprints and a structured ticket creation process for non-technical stakeholders, significantly improving team efficiency, collaboration, and project transparency

### Software Engineering Manager @ Parade
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Manage two full-stack engineering teams totaling 8 engineers, enforcing technical excellence, providing coaching, and developing processes to monitor and analyze key performance metrics
• Served as the technical escalation point, helping make critical architectural and implementation decisions for a technology stack including Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GCP, and Pub/Sub technology
• Mentored and developed team members through regular performance reviews, constructive feedback, and tailored professional development plans
• Recruit, interview, and onboard all engineers, ensuring a smooth and effective hiring process that aligns with organizational needs and culture
• Act as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert for all technical partnerships, overseeing integrations with enterprise partners and technology vendors

### Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
• Backend engineer supporting in-house A/B testing platform. Stack includes: Golang, Typescript, Node.js, React, MySQL
• Core member of the Go Community of Practice
• Author internal Go tutorials, documentation on idiomatic best practices and shared private modules
• Work as liaison between company wide analyst and engineering teams to disseminate information, gather product feedback and flesh out feature requests
• Migrate legacy RESTful APIs from AWS to GCP
• Interview and recruit associate - senior software engineers across Data Engineering and Core Product teams

### Manager / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Integrations @ Lucid, LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New Orleans Area
• Recruit, onboard and manage team of three engineers
• Train and mentor rotating interns
• Backend engineer responsible for building scalable client-facing applications. Stack includes: Golang, Python, Django, Postgres SQL, AWS Elasticbeanstalk, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS, React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flask
• Build RESTful APIs and microservices wrapping Lucid’s core API endpoints to provide a more seamless developer experience for clients integrating with Lucid’s technology
• Work with internal stakeholders to automate operational tasks such as data aggregation, project management and account management
• Serve as client facing product manager, project manager and lead engineer for 18 applications

### Software Engineer, Platform Integrations @ Lucid, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New Orleans Area

### Associate, Advanced Risk & Compliance Analytics @ PwC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Data Assurance Associate specializing in data analytics, database/application development and AML services for financial services clients in the NY Metro area. 

Responsibilities included:

• Design and execute ETL process to load exported data from client systems. Additionally, support process to convert COBOL code to SQL stored procedures.
• Perform control testing around the end-to-end corporate accounting process. Reconciliations were performed on journals entries using various software applications and programming languages such as Python, SQL, R, Tableau, Spotfire, Qliksense, ACL, Monarch, Excel, Oracle 
• Design automated solutions to digest data output by ERPs such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and detect irregularity in the dataset
• Strong experience with SQL, Python, Spotfire, Cobol, Postgres, Oracle, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas,  Microsoft Excel

### Intern, IT Recruiting @ Tekmark Global Solutions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
• Recruitment analysis of potential IT and software engineering candidates

### Intern, IT @ CUNY TV
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
• Website development
• Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the
integrity and security of data, reports and access.
• Compression and migration of recorded videos to web compatible files.
• Cataloging and organizing metadata


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Public Health & Computer Science
Tulane University

### High School
Bronx HS of Science


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-slavin-b67a9192

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Last updated: 2026-03-29