Ben is a Full-Stack Solutions Architect and Principal Engineer with 15+ years of experience in software development and infrastructure design. He is a team leader that works towards identifying solutions and coordinating their implementation. He has driven projects with an emphasis on security and scale involving API Architecture and runtime design; large-scale data design and processing; infrastructure design and deployment automation; development of workflow automation, DevOps, and real-time communication infrastructure for chat, VoIP and webRTC. In addition to his extensive technical background, he has mentored team members and is skilled in expediting and solving blocking issues. Ben is an elite engineer and excited to take on his next challenge.
Hire BenjaminPrincipal Engineer in Platform Infrastructure enhancing infrastructure automation and monitoring within an on-prem datacenter and coupled with AWS infrastructure and assisting team members. Worked with automating system and
database upgrades with ansible for configuring and deploying cloud infrastructure and databases including virtual machines, kubernetes, and postgreSQL.Technologies: Python, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, on-prem
Solutions Architect responsible for designing new API framework and the corresponding deployment infrastructure using python, kuberenetes, and terraform. Designed OLAP time-series database to consume product data to be processed for billing and business intelligence. Redefined the development to production pipelines with new CI/CD and containerization of legacy services. Design of realtime communication api and infrastructure with webrtc for chat and video conferencing products. Coordinated with Teams to collaborate and support architectural implementation.
Technologies: Kubernetes, WebRTC, REST API, Express, VoIP, JavaScript
Senior full-stack developer and team lead in the overhaul of internal CRM and product portal. Designed strategy and coordinated the execution for upgrading the core CRM/portal webapp. Enhanced development workflows, project coordination processes, and deployment tooling. Built API and realtime application services in support of integration with VoIP infrastructure for both monitoring and integration with products.
Technologies: PHP, jQuery UI, SASS, CRUD, SQL, API, Vagrant, Chef, Python, JavaScript
Software Development of the npr.org front-end, specifically during the responsive redesign of the home page and update of the online radio station player.
WordPress specialist, building and maintaining WordPress plugins, coordinating 3rd party vendors in the migration of proprietary CMS to WordPress migrations, assisting front-end team with HTML/ CSS/JavaScript. Built management tools for SEO tracking and maintenance utilizing template hooks, sitemap generation (XML, video, images), and WordPress permalink system Maintained Enterprise WordPress installation
Technologies: WordPress, NodeJS, Site9 CMS, MySQL, Bash, Curl, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery UI, AJAX Hooks, HTML, CSS, XHTML.
Full-stack developer and maintainer of custom CMS solutions for a marketing firm and all client sites, later converting everything to WordPress. Integrated Third-Party Products into Web-Platforms. Created multiple Plugins for WordPress to streamline production, deployment, and maintenance. As well as add new and unique functionality to the WordPress environment. Video Distribution involving web optimization via transcoding upon upload, deployment to the specified sites/pages/posts.
Technologies: Linux, Windows Server, bind9, MySQL, Apache, ssh, PHP, Python, Java, XHTML, AJAX, PHPQuery, WordPress