Ben Bromhead is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 11+ years designing highly available, revenue-critical distributed systems and a deep background in information security. Based in New Zealand, he leads Instaclustr by NetApp, pairing hands-on engineering with customer-facing architecture work across Cassandra, Spark, Kafka and Elasticsearch while advocating cloud-native, Kubernetes-enabled, cloud-independent designs. He started his career in security evaluations and penetration testing (Common Criteria, FIPS 140-2), giving him a rare combination of operational, product and compliance expertise. Ben excels at translating complex requirements into resilient managed Open Source services for both Fortune 500s and startups, and is known for finding the “aha” moments that unlock better system designs.
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