About
Ben is a seasoned engineering leader with 20 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, operations, DevOps, and SecOps. He specializes in ML/AI and LLMs and holds certifications in AWS and GCP. He has led teams across various industries, including healthcare, social networks, eCommerce, and video games. With computer science, machine learning, and finance expertise, Ben has HIPAA, PCI, and SOC2 compliance experience. He excels in writing code, buildouts, operations, and migrations.
Top Skills
- Software Development20%
- AWS DevOps20%
- Cloud Architecture20%
- Cloud Engineering20%
- Cloud Infrastructure20%
Also works with
- SecOps
- Cloud FinOps
- Enterprise Architecture
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Cloud Security
- Startups
- Cloud Migration
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Architecture
- Advisory
- CTO
- Coaching
- Leadership
- Scalability
- Software Architecture
- Technical Leadership
- Engineering
- Team Leadership
- App Infrastructure
- Code Review
- Software Design
- Cloud Monitoring
- Costs
- Financial Operations & Processes
- Financial Options
- Operational Finance
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- AWS Cloud Architecture
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Migration
- Cloud
- DevOps Engineer
- Documentation
- AWS Certified Solution Architect
- Multitenancy
- Site Reliability
- Full-stack Development
- Platform Engineering
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Networks
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Argo CD
- GitHub Actions
- Containers
- Networking
- Monitoring
- IT Security
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
- Configuration Management
- Containerization
- Security
- System Administration
- Log Management
- Systems Monitoring
- Time Series
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Route 53
- Full-stack
- Process Development
- Release Management
- APIs
- Cloud Networking
- Scalable Web Services
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS VPN
- Network Engineering
- Single Sign-on (SSO)
- Encryption
- PCI Compliance
- Algorithms
- API Gateways
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Virtualization
- Serverless
- API Integration
- Analytics
- Memorystore
- Google BigQuery
- Dataproc
- Pub/Sub
- Snyk
- Google Cloud Functions
- Amazon Redshift
- Finance
- PCI
- PCI DSS
- OpenAI GPT-4 API
- Disaster Recovery Consulting
- Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)
- Prometheus
- Amazon API Gateway
- Data Engineering
- AWS CodePipeline
- Fintech
- K-12 Education
- SOC 2
Experience
Jan 2024 — Present
DevOps Consultant
SID3CAR CO
Architected and implemented database anonymization pipeline for UTA and Development. Enhanced Ruby on Rails and updated dependencies for legacy projects. Analyzed, reconfigured, and monitored multithreaded server implementation for scale and resiliency.
Jan 2024 — Jan 2024
Head of TechOps and SRE
Inworld AI
Deployed and managed Argo CD for multiple environments, multi-cloud deployments, and microservice architecture. Led technical implementation efforts while also providing leadership in a split of 70% technical work and 30% leadership responsibilities. Migrated ML services from one cloud provider to another cloud provider. Improved and organized Terraform code and modules, integrating CI/CD with Terragrunt and GitHub Actions. Refactored main code deployment from manual monolithic build to GitOps CI/CD.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2024
Senior Director, ML Operations and Platform
Anthem.AI/Elevance Health
Led both technical implementation and leadership initiatives with a balanced split of 50% each. Architected cloud infrastructure, security, tools, and DevOps for a commercializable ML and AI division. Recruited and trained 20 infrastructure, DevOps, and security engineers to manage cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and toolsets. Scaled a CI/CD deployment platform leveraged by 125 software engineers. Coordinated with business, technical, compliance, security, and legal stakeholders to deliver targeted platform requirements. Led a 3-year cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure platform buildout for 10+ ML/AI and GenAI projects on AWS and GCP.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2024
Senior Director, ML Operations and Platform
Anthem.AI/Elevance Health
Led both technical implementation and leadership initiatives with a balanced split of 50% each. Architected cloud infrastructure, security, tools, and DevOps for a commercializable ML and AI division. Recruited and trained 20 infrastructure, DevOps, and security engineers to manage cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and toolsets. Scaled a CI/CD deployment platform leveraged by 125 software engineers. Coordinated with business, technical, compliance, security, and legal stakeholders to deliver targeted platform requirements. Led a 3-year cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure platform buildout for 10+ ML/AI and GenAI projects on AWS and GCP.
Jan 2007 — Jan 2022
Principal Consultant
MFT
Built an in-house custom accounting and ERP platform. Developed a streaming video application and marketplace. Improved and managed an employee perks delivery application. Refactored a social networking application from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Supported a nonprofit home equity insurance program.
Jan 2018 — Jan 2020
Engineering Manager
BigCommerce
Managed 3rd-party applications and themes team and migrated themes billing to an integrated platform. Hired and trained additional managers and five engineers. Extended a billing platform to support a 3rd-party resale integration. Architected a billing platform with SOA decomposition.
Jan 2017 — Jan 2018
VP of Engineering
Dropcountr
Worked with the CEO to build a scalability strategy and revamp the client onboarding roadmap. Converted a data ingestion ETL to queue-based Sidekiq architecture. Rebuilt native mobile apps in React Native targeting iOS and Android platforms. Recruited and hired lead front- and back-end developers.
Jan 2016 — Jan 2017
Leader, Technology Operations
Scout RFP
Managed the AWS infrastructure, DevOps, security, and compliance for 13-person US and Latvia teams. Partnered with the VP of engineering to refactor agile work, CI, and planning tools. Migrated the legacy architecture to AWS RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, and CloudFront. Envisioned, communicated, and executed strategic security and scalability plans.
Jan 2014 — Jan 2016
Chief Technology Officer
Diagnotes
Extended the API to support client-driven events and external calls. Integrated with clients' electronic medical records systems. Deployed and managed the VPN connectivity to our client's systems. Managed the development pipeline and overall product strategy. Delivered HIPAA-compliant secure messaging, medical records, and on-call scheduling. Recruited and hired developers, systems administrators, and a mobile team. Extended an application to multiple new revenue opportunities (mobile apps).
Jan 2011 — Jan 2014
Chief Technology Officer
TheRegistrationSystem.com
Architected and built a live e-ticket sales application (Ruby on Rails 3) in four weeks. Built a bidirectional API to support a multi-platform mobile application. Upgraded and extended the architecture to support high peak volume event sales. Recruited and managed the overseas development team
Jan 2011 — Jan 2014
Chief Technology Officer
WhatNext
Extended and maintained a healthcare-focused social networking application. Optimized Sphinx searching, the Redis cache functionality, and a new feature pipeline. Managed a remote team for incremental improvements.
Jan 2004 — Jan 2009
Chief Technology Officer | Co-founder
Sagebit LLC
Designed the business plan and raised capital for a tech consultancy. Hired and trained a team of six developers and four interns. Managed migration of social networking site from PHP to Ruby on Rails.
Education
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Brown University - Providence, RI, USA
2003 - 2005
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH, USA
1996 - 2000
Certifications
GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Google Cloud
Jan 2023
GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
Jan 2023
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Training and Certification
Jan 2017 — Jan 2020
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Training and Certification
Jan 2015 — Jan 2020
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