I'm Ben, a Software and Platform Engineer with 4+ years of experience in the industry.
I am passionate about building extensive & scalable infrastructure, system architectures that speed up developers and organizations, consumer-facing mobile applications, internal tooling, and resilient backend services hosted on several different types of infrastructure.
- Languages: Golang, Javascript/Typescript, Node.js, Terraform, Python, Swift
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean
- DevOps & Monitoring: Github Actions, Datadog, Dynatrace, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Terraform Cloud
- Special Tech Interests: Kubernetes, Serverless Infrastructure, Mono Repos, Developer Tooling, Monitoring as Code, Infrastructure as Code, Configuration and Secret Management, Feature Flagging
- Special Non-Tech Interests: Language Learning, Financial Literacy, Nutrition, Travel, Surfing, Snowboarding, Climbing
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- Extra - Senior Software Engineer (current)
- Altro - First & Lead Platform engineer
- Tesla - Software and Site Reliability Engineer
- Ojai - Founding Software Engineer
- Overlooked - Software Engineer Intern
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, or shoot me an email.