Ben Echols
Director Of Product at Temporal Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Echols is a product leader and founder with 10 years of experience building developer platforms, cloud services, and AI-enabled products, currently directing Temporal Cloud. He’s held senior product roles at Confluent and Atlassian, co-founded Nemo, and helped make LLMs practical for large enterprises at Lamini. Ben blends API and platform expertise with go-to-market and partnership chops—he’s launched consumer services like Verizon FamilyBase to 500K paying subscribers and partnered with BCG Digital Ventures on enterprise initiatives. His BA in Philosophy & Cognitive Science informs a user-centric, systems-thinking approach to complex distributed systems and emergent ML workflows. True to his GitHub blurb, he’s a constant experimenter who moves quickly from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Philosophy & Cognitive Science, BA, Philosophy & Cognitive Science at Williams College
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Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bechols/bechols-gatsby-netlify
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Personal site built with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify
Contributions:23 PRs, 39 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 7 months
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bechols/bechols-dotcom
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Personal site built with Gatsby
Contributions:10 PRs, 44 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
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