Ben Burgess
Head Of Security at Offchain Labs
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Burgess is Head of Security and a seasoned Site Reliability leader with 11 years of experience building and securing large-scale, production infrastructure at Offchain Labs. He progressed rapidly from software engineer to senior SRE roles and now leads security strategy for a team powering decentralized applications like Arbitrum Classic, where he contributed robust healthcheck and node readiness systems. Ben combines deep academic training—a PhD and MA in Computer Science from Princeton and a BE in Electrical Engineering—with hands-on DevOps, incident response, and threat mitigation expertise. He has a strong track record of improving system reliability through automation, testing, and operational rework while also shaping policy and organizational practices. Known for bridging technical implementation and strategic program management, he draws on prior federal- and state-focused HR and compliance experience to codify secure, auditable processes. Based in Nashville, he brings a research-driven mindset to practical, security-first engineering in the Web3 space.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton University
Japanese, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
arb10
go10
testing9
devops8
prometheus7
nodejs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OffchainLabs/arbitrum-classic
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Powers fast, private, decentralized applications
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development and implementation of a healthcheck system for an RPC node within the Arbitrum Classic repository. This involved creating health check endpoints and integrating asynchronous checks for OpenEthereum and primary node statuses, ensuring the node's readiness and liveness. Furthermore, the user addressed bug fixes, unit test improvements and reworked the codebase to ensure the health check runs with an updated directory structure.
decentralized-applications
aruneshmathur/COS-561-Project
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 pushes in 17 days
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