Benjamin Cane Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

As a Distinguished Engineer at American Express, I lead a small team of highly skilled staff and principal engineers in developing and maintaining the payment platforms that support the company's payment network and acquirer systems. My primary focus is to design and implement highly performant and resilient cloud-native applications and infrastructure that enable future payment capabilities. This includes driving the adoption of cloud-native technologies and practices across the enterprise.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Principal Engineer, I am a Vice President level Engineer for the Card Payment Network. My focus is to build performance and resiliency within the payment network.- Providing mentorship to Junior and Senior Engineers through one-to-ones and internal meetups- Driving the design of a micro services and cloud native transaction processing platform.- Working with infrastructure teams to build a platform designed for availability and performance- Creating specialized transaction routing and load balancing applications in Golang- Spearheading the adoption of a Service Mesh using open source tools such as Consul and Envoy- Driving the adoption of gRPC and HTTP/2 within the core platform- Pushing the adoption of application metrics collection via Prometheus- Contributing to the creation of company wide Cloud Native practices and frameworks

New York, Ny, Us

As a Staff Engineer I was a Director level infrastructure and software engineer. I lead a small team of 4-6 highly skilled Sr. Engineers who were acting in the capacity of an Architecture team. I was responsible for driving DevOps principles within the mission critical platforms team. I also owned the architecture for several applications within the Card Authorizations Network.- Drove the adoption of the Drools Rules Engine for ATM transaction post processing- Pushed Software Engineering best practices such as the adoption of Git Flow and TDD- Helped create a Continuous Integration and Delivery solution using Jenkins and Docker- Created an "infrastructure as code" based application deployment system using Docker and Saltstack- Drove the creation of a transaction tracing capability using Splunk and Syslog- Led a team evaluating programming languages for our core card payment network.- Drove a practice of hands-free automated functional testing with developer notifications via Slack- Member of an internal "High Speed Engineer" group. A group of selected engineers focused on pushing Open Source within American Express.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Lead Technical Architect, I was a Infrastructure Architect. I was part of the mission critical platforms team. I was responsible for infrastructure running Card Authorizations and Manage File Transfer capabilities. Both of these platforms had availability requirements of 99.999% or higher.- Designed a new internal hosting solution for the managed file transfer capability- Evaluated several clustered/distributed filesystems choosing GPFS which enabled cross data-center clustering. This filesystem enables synchronous file writes across two data-centers- Created several Highly Available Oracle database platforms using Oracle RAC and Golden Gate- Evangelized the use of configuration management solutions such as SaltStack & Puppet- Led the introduction of Splunk into the monitoring ecosystem for mission critical platforms- Drove the design of an automatic DNS and IP based site failover for the Card Authorizations API- Leader of several tiger teams focused on tuning and resolving long standing issues. This included identifying application performance issues and redesigning our Oracle database replication architecture

Maynard, Ma, Us

Stratus is a company that specializes in Continuous Availability. I was a Sr. Systems Engineer within the specialized Managed Services group. Our goal, was to keep our customers mission critical Linux and ESX systems always online.- Team Leader to several Engineers Level 1-4- Led the creation of runbooks for server provisioning and application/server troubleshooting- Was responsible for building custom deployments for clients based on their unique needs- Enhanced the system provisioning process by introducing Kickstart- Was a Escalation point for critical on-call issue resolution- Primary engineer for bi-annual system performance tuning efforts

Phoenix, Az, Us

IPower was a startup Web Hosting company with over one million domains by the time it was acquired. I was a Systems Engineer with a split role. I was part of the NOC Engineering team but spent about 50% of my time responsible for Special Projects.- Designed a Highly Available, Database backed DNS system using Solaris Zones, PowerDNS & MySQL- Managed over 5,000 production FreeBSD, Linux and Windows servers as part of the NOC team- Wrote several Perl & BASH scripts to enhance Security and Performance of the shared hosting environment- Implemented a PXE Boot & Golden Image provisioning system using NOC Monkey- Managed and Trained the Level III and outsourced Level II Technical Support Groups- Wrote a custom knowledge base in PHP & MySQL