Ben B.

About Ben B.

A proven technologist with a track record of defining new product efforts, forming project teams, and leading products to successful launch. Success managing distributed and diverse product teams that include Engineering, QA, and Product Management. Customer-focused and results driven.Areas of expertise include all phases of product development spanning team formation, leadership of teams from 0 to 80 contributors, strategy development, requirements discovery, competitor analysis, partner development, roadmap planning, product design, and the selection and application of appropriate engineering and business processes.Specialties: engineering management, distributed systems, scalability, SAAS, product design, product management, competitor analysis, consumer social, direct-to-consumer, business-to-business, consumer subscription services, travel, healthcare.

Experience

1. Vice President of Engineering

   Syrup Tech

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Joined Syrup at seed stage as the first head of engineering. Built the product and team with A round funding supported by Accel.

Education

• UCLA

  Bachelor, Economics and Business

• Indiana University Bloomington

  MS, Computer Science

Skills

• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Data Center
• System Architecture
• Architectures
• Saas
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Xml
• Rest
• Competitive Analysis
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Big Data
• Nas
• Sdlc
• Integration
• Engineering Management
• Solution Architecture
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Product Management
• Storage Virtualization
• Web Services
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Business Process
• Web Applications
• Testing
• Soa
• Professional Services
• Distributed Systems
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• High Availability
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Unix
• Product Design
• Agile Methodologies