Ben Firestone
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Concord, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Firestone is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience delivering scalable backend systems, data platforms, and ML solutions. Currently at BACtrack and co-founder of a stealth startup, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership from the Bay Area. At Grindr, he led the modernization of a multi-petabyte data platform from self-hosted to Snowflake and Databricks, built an experimentation and analytics platform, and achieved substantial cost savings and revenue impact. Earlier at Flickr, he steered a major cloud migration, built high-performance search and data pipelines, and established a data/ML team focused on personalization and behavior analytics. His superpower is dissecting complex problems into actionable plans that deliver measurable business results. He thrives guiding cross-functional teams through large-scale transformations across startups and large tech companies, with a background that includes driving infrastructure and ML initiatives at Flickr and Yahoo.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bfirestone/docker-powerdns
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
bfirestone/ud-popular-movies-stg02
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Udacity Android Nanodegree - Popular Movies Stage2
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
moviesnanodegreeudacitystage2android
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