Ben Smith Email & Phone Number

I am a passionate software leader with over 15 years of experience professionally developing software and 5 years of experience as a software executive. I have written software across a broad spectrum of domains, including data analysis and simulation for particle physics research, cloud storage and collaboration for large enterprises, and drug discovery tools for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. I love building products that use cutting edge technology to solve real world problems, as highlighted, for example, in AWS' startup blog:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/how-emerald-cloud-lab-is-revolutionizing-the-laboratory-using-aws/and the real world serverless podcast:https://realworldserverless.com/episode/64I am a deeply technical and hands on leader who loves technology. My deepest expertise is in writing large scale distributed systems using technologies like AWS, golang, postgres, and kubernetes, but I have experience across most modern technologies, including mobile, web, and desktop development. I have learned that I'm often able to maximize my impact by growing teams, building a collaborative, growth oriented culture, and developing tools and processes that allow the engineers in my organization to do their best work.My ideal role would be Head of Engineering at a rapidly growing, series B or later company that has a collaborative, interdisciplinary culture where delighting your customer and being empowered to do your best work are key values. I would like to spend the majority of my time developing and evangelizing a technical vision, hiring and growing teams, and developing processes to enable my teams to be successful, as well as having some time to do hands on technical work.

Listed skills include Objective C, Python, Software Design, Cocoa, and 41 others.