Benjamin Becker
Software Engineering Leader
Columbus,OH
Summary
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings. Seeking to relocate to the Washington, DC area.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
Northwoods Consulting Partners
04.2024 - Current
- Managed a team of 5 engineering managers across a range of domains and concurrent workstreams
- Provided technical leadership across a variety of engineering domains and initiatives
- Collaborated with Product organization to develop and validate roadmap, include gen-ai initiatives
- Contributed technically on data visualization, cloud operations, and implementation efforts
- Managed and contributed to security initiatives, including policy development and third party audit
- Delivered product roadmap on time and on budget
DevOps Manager
Northwoods Consulting Partners
02.2022 - 04.2024
- Managed and motivated inter-disciplinary Platform team to operate and extend the Traverse SaaS platform
- Collaborated with peer managers to develop and iterate upon software engineering practices and policies
- Collaborated with Product Management organization to develop product roadmap and set technical direction
- Supported, oversaw, and contributed technically to multiple Platform Team initiatives to deliver consolidated databases, audit pipelines, reporting infrastructure, and Kubernetes replatforming
- Developed code-escrow automation, data extraction tooling, and code-quality jobs
- Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for completion of key projects, fostering strong working relationships among team members.
- Founding member of Northwoods Security Team; responsibilities including developing policy, conducting exercises, and maintaining SOC2 certification
IT Manager
Path Robotics INC
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Managed vendor relationships for hardware, software, and services procurement, ensuring quality products at competitive prices
- Collaborated with other departments to help meet IT needs and properly integrate and secure systems
- Developed and implemented measures and procedures to protect IT systems from cyber threats and data breaches
- Establish cloud operations infrastructure featuring centralized configuration repositories, Terraform and Ansible automation, and lights-out remote support tooling
- Bootstrapped IT department, including ticketing systems, KPIs, identity management tooling, AI workstation provisioning (Ubuntu Desktop), and documented SOPs
Lead of Technical Operations
Corelight INC
11.2017 - 06.2021
- Worked remotely from home and from a satellite office with frequent travel to main office in San Francisco
- Hired and grew cross-discipline team supporting cloud service implementation/operations and IT/Infrastructural services across the organization, with a focus on supporting R&D
- Architected and implemented robust cloud backend for management of and telemetry collection from a geographically distributed deployment of 1000s of customer devices using automation and configuration management, containerization, Golang, and lambda driven serverless technology
- Developed integrations between Corelight Cloud Services and Sales Operations tooling for asset management and licensing
- Developed systems and processes for onboarding and scaling technical operations team with a focus on DevOps practices
- Performed technology selection and deployment of SSO platform and Zero-Trust security strategies.
Manager of Technical Operations and Security
Paxata
05.2016 - 11.2017
- Worked remotely from home and from a satellite office with frequent travel to main office in San Francisco
- Established and recruited for performance testing team for SaaS big data application
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
- Supported Sales Engineering on technical details of the Paxata SaaS offering
- Developed and maintained cloud operations, including SaaS software delivery, packaged (client-hosted) software delivery, data ingestion, and Hadoop based data processing infrastructure
- Contributed to business continuity planning efforts by assessing potential risks to critical systems and implementing backup strategies that ensured minimal downtime during disaster recovery scenarios
- Established and lead SOC2 compliance and certification.
DevOps Team Captain
CrossChx
10.2014 - 05.2016
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines
- Contributed to creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration
- Administered 100s of ipsec VPN connections for remote administration (on-prem as a service) and end-user access (SaaS) in a healthcare setting
- Consolidated cloud operations tooling from a variety of solutions to idiomatic Ansible; maintaining feature parity and improving reliability
- Orchestrated deployment and administration of a heterogenous set of geographically and logically isolated services
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
09.2016 - 08.2021
- Dean's List Winter 2018
- President's List Summer & Fall 2019, Spring & Summer 2020
- magna cum laude graduate
Skills
Operations Management
Performance Management
Staff Development
Project Management
Infrastructure Automation/Ansible/Terraform
AWS/Azure/GCP
Containerization/Kubernetes
Cloud Computing Expertise
Microservices Architecture
Continuous Improvement
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster®
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering - Northwoods Consulting Partners
04.2024 - Current
DevOps Manager - Northwoods Consulting Partners
02.2022 - 04.2024
IT Manager - Path Robotics INC
06.2021 - 02.2022
Certified ScrumMaster®
04-2021
Lead of Technical Operations - Corelight INC
11.2017 - 06.2021
Franklin University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
09.2016 - 08.2021
Manager of Technical Operations and Security - Paxata
05.2016 - 11.2017
DevOps Team Captain - CrossChx
10.2014 - 05.2016
References
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