Benjamin Becker

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

Summary

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Work History

Director of Software Engineering

DevOps Manager

IT Manager

Lead of Technical Operations

Manager of Technical Operations and Security

DevOps Team Captain

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

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