Ben Brown
Senior Director Of Engineering at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Valletta, South Eastern Region, Malta
Summary
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SeniorBen Brown is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Kraken where he has advanced through technical and leadership roles since 2019. He specializes in building and scaling engineering organizations for crypto and financial platforms, blending hands-on software development roots with strategic oversight of large, mission-critical systems. Based in Valletta, Malta, Ben has a track record across trading-focused firms (Crypto Facilities) and consumer tech, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability, compliance, and low-latency systems. Known for progressing from individual contributor to executive within the same company, he pairs deep operational knowledge with people leadership to drive delivery and technical excellence.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
typescript10
angularjs10
nodejs10
react10
angular10
web-developer9
web-performance9
web-framework9
reactive-forms8
cli8
minification6
lts6
validation6
angularjs-material6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benbrownlol/project-belantis
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
firestoreangular-1firebasepwaangular
benbrownlol/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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