Ben Buzbee
Head Of Engineering at Boop AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Buzbee is a Head of Engineering and seasoned native C++ systems engineer with 12 years building latency-sensitive, security-critical software across Microsoft, startups, and Cloudflare. He has led teams that turned early research—like secure containers and Remote Browsers—into production products used by partners such as Apple, Amazon, and Hugging Face, and now leads engineering for an AI-native social travel startup. Deep hands-on experience spans VR/3D shells and graphics tooling at Microsoft to edge-native secure container orchestration and gVisor work at Cloudflare, and contributions to notable open-source projects like HashiCorp Nomad improving Docker security and custom runtimes. Equally comfortable shipping code and shaping strategy, he has advised and invested in AI and agentic systems, building his own agent framework and forecasting tools. Based in Seattle, he blends systems-level rigor with product intuition and a knack for reducing complex performance and security problems to practical, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Florida State University
Github Skills (13)
docker10
go10
api10
backend10
devops10
back-end-development10
containerization10
apidoc10
dockers10
nomad10
rpc9
error-handling8
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the backend functionality and infrastructure of the Nomad project. Their work involved fixing critical bugs in the Docker driver, specifically addressing issues related to security options and custom runtimes. They also implemented support for custom Docker runtimes, including gvisor, enhancing the flexibility of the container orchestration. Furthermore, they addressed RPC retry logic and logging improvements.
consulmicroservicesvault
benbuzbee/hsbot
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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