Ben A

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Block Platform Technical Lead | Jack of all trades | Startup Advisor @ Block
Ben A's Location
San Diego, California, United States, United States
About Ben A

I have been in the software industry for more than 12 years, I wear different hats and love describing myself as a "Jack of all trades". I strongly believe that polyvalence is key and I don't trust expertise.I started my career as a Java Developer and quickly grew up as a Full BackEnd Engineer, building backend logic and managing Cloud Infrastructure. I am now working as the Technical Lead of the Block Platform Engineering team.I am a hands-on engineer at heart, I love coding and I am doing it in my free time.I worked with small and big companies, governments and startups. I don't believe that one type is better than the other, but they have their own advantages and challenges.Feel free to contact me. I am always looking to meet awesome people. We all bring our very own value in this world, in whatever small way.

Ben A's Current Company Details
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Block Platform Technical Lead | Jack of all trades | Startup Advisor
Ben A Work Experience Details
  • Block
    Platform Technical Lead
    Block Nov 2024 - Present
    Oakland, California, Us
    Bigger challenges, Bigger wins.Unifying our platforms.
  • Block
    Platform Staff Engineer @ Cashapp
    Block Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
    Oakland, California, Us
    🇨🇦 ➡️ 🇺🇸
  • Block
    Platform Staff Engineer @ Cashapp
    Block Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
    Oakland, California, Us
    Driving platform tech strategy across compute, cloud foundation, traffic and observability.
  • Block
    Platform Engineering Manager @ Cashapp
    Block Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
    Oakland, California, Us
    Leading the Compute team, delivering / axing projects, building stability and structure.
  • Block
    Platform Engineer @ Cashapp
    Block Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
    Oakland, California, Us
    Tackling Kubernetes upgrades, refining Terraform, and leveling up IaC.
  • Time For The Planet
    Shareholder
    Time For The Planet Dec 2022 - Present
    Lyon, RhĂ´ne-Alpes, Fr
    Time for the Planet is a non-profit company raising €1 billion to create 100 companies that will address climate change🔥 🌏Anyone can become a shareholder.We are the last generation able to prevent the climate collapse.Let's act together!Learn more and join us here: www.time-planet.com
  • Beryllium
    Technical Advisor
    Beryllium Aug 2020 - Present
    Mumbai, In
    Various tasks include- Architecture & Design- Code Review- Infrastructure Automation (EKS, ECR, EC2, RDS, etc.)- Leading the Backend Architecture Strategy#kubernetes #argocd #eks #aws #gcp
  • Kintohub
    Open Source Developer
    Kintohub Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
    Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hk
    KintoHub is an open source CICD platform designed with a developer-friendly interface for Kubernetes.Following announcement of KintoHub Team acquired by Square and joining Cash App Cloud Platform Team, we fully open sourced KintoHub under the Apache 2.0 license and moved it under https://github.com/kintoproj. We are still working on making Kubernetes easy for developers. Don't hesitate to contact us for help or feedback.#kubernetes #golang #helm
  • Kintohub
    Director Of Engineering
    Kintohub Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
    Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hk
    Team of 6 Engineers:- Leading and Growing the Engineering Team (or dying trying) -> We have talented people here!- Removing Impediments for the team so that they can work effectively.- Strategic Product and Technical Discussion/Decision -> Architecture, Tech, Goals, etc.- Project Management -> Backlog, Retro, Prios, Syncing QA, etc.- Hiring Process#Kubernetes #K8S #Docker #Argo #ArgoCD #GitOps #GKE #LetsEncrypt #Istio #Jaeger #KNative #Cloudflare #Golang #Terraform
  • Kintohub
    Devops Engineer
    Kintohub Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
    Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hk
    Swiss Army Knife:- In charge of the Cloud + Kubernetes Infrastructure- Development of the CICD using Argo for KintoHub - KintoHub use KintoHub on a daily basis - on top of Dev, Staging, Prod, each developer has their own environment.- Deployment of all the core components of KintoHub (Istio, ES, Fluent-d/bit, Prometheus, etc.) in a GitOps Approach -> manual changes on the cluster are automatically rolled back with the changes in Github.- Development of several Services in Golang using KubeAPI -> LetsEncrypt Certificates creation using CertManager, Deployment System, Build System, etc.- Managing Cloudflare -> DNS, Caching, SSL, Firewall, etc.- Support for our Customers#Kubernetes #K8S #Docker #Argo #ArgoCD #GitOps #GKE #LetsEncrypt #Istio #Jaeger #KNative #Cloudflare #Golang #Terraform
  • Axa
    Devops Engineer
    Axa May 2016 - Jul 2018
    Paris, Fr, Fr
    OpenPaaS Asia Competency Center.OpenPaaS is the new Platform As A Service built by AXA.OpenPaaS is OpenShift on AWS + all the AXA Layers for Security / Architecture.My various tasks are:- Support and Training of the Entities (Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia) on this new platform.- Containerization/Dockerization of applications.- Platform Operations and Infrastructure Automation.- Help to define/improve Solutions Architecture.- POC with Data Encryption Solutions in order to choose a solution for AXA Asia.#Openshift #Docker #AWS #Ansible #TerraformMongoDB- MongoDB Point of Contact/Expert in AXA Asia.- Setup of an Asian Shared Cluster on AWS.- In charge of the AXA Asia MongoDB Offer.- Support of the existing MongoDB Setups.#MongoDB Enterprise #Ops Manager #Encryption #KMIP #AWS #Ansible
  • Cgi
    Java Developer
    Cgi Apr 2013 - Apr 2016
    Montreal, Quebec, Ca
    I worked on the following projects:- Technical Expert: "RCU"​ Project for BUT International (2015)- Technical Expert: KISS Project for Canal + (2014-2015)- Software Developer: TAJ Project for the Ministry of the Interior (2013 - 2014)- Software Developer: Project data.gouv for the Prime Minister's Office (2013)I also worked on pre-sales, POC and internal projects such as:- Deployment of document search engines- Analytics/Dataviz with an open-source stack
  • Direction GĂ©nĂ©rale Des Finances Publiques (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer
    Direction Générale Des Finances Publiques (Via Cgi) Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
    France, Fr
    Full Stack Project#Eclipse, #Java EE, #SpringMVC, #Spring Web Flow, #JSP, #Hibernate, #PostgreSQL
  • But International (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer
    But International (Via Cgi) Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
    Emerainville, Fr
    "RCU"​ Project / Unified Customer RepositoryDeployment of a unified customer repository (RCU) for all entities of BUT.Development of an application (Single Page Application) querying ElasticSearch. The application is fully configurable (results to return, advanced research fields, auto-completion, etc.).Development of a generic indexer: Mongo to ElasticSearch (error recovery, high availability, etc.).Optimization of data processing and development of the data deduplication.Management of interns.#Eclipse, #MongoDB, #MongoConnector, #ElasticSearch, #Java EE, #Spring Batch, #Spring Boot, #AngularJS, #Bootstrap, #Talend, #BI
  • Ratp (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer
    Ratp (Via Cgi) Apr 2015 - May 2015
    Paris, Fr
    "Urban Web" Project / Corporate Search EngineDesign and implementation project of a corporate search solution prototype gathering multiple sources (File System, intranet sites, etc) in order to retrieve them from the RATP Intraned. The solution is based on ElasticSearch search engine.The user interface is a SPA built using Angularjs and Bootstrap. It incorporates features inspired from the Google interface.#Eclipse, #Github, #Java EE, #Spring Batch #HTML5, #CSS3, #AngularJS, #Bootstrap, #MongoDB, #ElasticSearch, #Apache Tika, #Amazon Web Services
  • Canal+ (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer
    Canal+ (Via Cgi) Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
    Issy-Les-Moulineaux, ĂŽle-De-France, Fr
    "KISS"​ Project / Functional SupervisionImplementation of a BIG DATA architecture to supervise functionally and in real-time the business activity driven by applications of the new IT System. Several IT applications trigger business events (purchase, payment, etc ....) through different sources: databases SQL / NoSQL, log files, etc. These datas are collected, indexed, aggregated an displayed in various forms and tabular charts. The solution implementation derive from an ELK solution to integrate specific functionalities: creation of dynamic and interactive dashboards, set up and packaged with a few clicks, automatic real-time monitoring and indicators (threshold excess, trend, occurrence of particular events ... etc.) with programmable alerts lifted in a few clicks. Connectors development towards different sources.#Eclipse, #MongoDB, #ElasticSearch, #Java EE, #Spring MVC, #AngularJS, #Bootstrap, #Logstash, #Kibana
  • Ministère De L'IntĂ©rieur (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer
    Ministère De L'Intérieur (Via Cgi) Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
    Paris, Fr
    "TAJ"​ ProjectTAJ is the daily working tool for the National Gendarmerie and the National Police. This tool not only allows them to search and view documents relating to crimes committed in France (several million documents), but also to search the document database, performing aggregations ... etc.. Evolutions development and bug fixes.#Eclipse, #Oracle SQL Developer, #Java, #Struts, #FAST, #Oracle
  • Cabinet Du Premier Ministre (Via Cgi)
    Java Developer - Internship
    Cabinet Du Premier Ministre (Via Cgi) Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
    Paris, Fr
    data.gouv.fr Project / Final year internshipdata.gouv.fr Project - Development of an exploration and interactive visualization of large data sets prototype. The solution uses the native capabilities of MongoDB for storage of data sets and various JavaScript libraries for datavisualisation.The goal of the prototype was to evaluate the suitability of using the massive processing capabilities (MapReduce mode) MongoDB for aggregating data to support an interactive navigation mechanism (drill down ... etc.) in data and calculating statistical indicators on aggregated data dynamically.#Eclipse, #Subversion, #Java EE, #Spring MVC, #Javascript, # HTML5, CSS3 #, #Highcharts, #MongoDB, #XML, #RDF, #SDMX
  • Pentila
    Java Developer - Internship
    Pentila Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
    Full Stack Project
  • Laboratoire Syscom - UniversitĂ© De Savoie
    Java Developer - Internship
    Laboratoire Syscom - Université De Savoie Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
    Research and developmentDevelopment of a game.Development of a full Java prototype for interacting with the game. The prototype should allow the administrator to create new goals, new characters, etc ... new "missions" in order to get a user / player to gain new skills on a specific topic .

Ben A Skills

Go Docker Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Openshift Mongodb

Ben A Education Details

  • UniversitĂ© Savoie Mont Blanc
    Université Savoie Mont Blanc
    Software Development
  • Galway-Mayo Institute Of Technology
    Galway-Mayo Institute Of Technology
    Software Development
  • UniversitĂ© Savoie Mont Blanc
    Université Savoie Mont Blanc
    Software Development

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Ben A works for Block

What is Ben A's role at the current company?

Ben A's current role is Block Platform Technical Lead | Jack of all trades | Startup Advisor.

What schools did Ben A attend?

Ben A attended Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Galway-Mayo Institute Of Technology, Université Savoie Mont Blanc.

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Ben A has skills like Go, Docker, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Openshift, Mongodb.

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