Ben Collins
Vice President Of Engineering at Antithesis
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Collins is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and state storage, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Antithesis where he focuses on autonomous software testing. He was a project lead and early engineer on FoundationDB—contributing to core C++ systems, Java bindings, and trace logging—and led its integration and open-sourcing while at Apple. Ben combines hands-on systems programming (C++, Flow, Python) with people leadership, having recruited and grown teams from the first hire through senior management roles. His background includes government-grade geospatial visualization work at MITRE, reflecting a knack for pragmatic engineering across domains and a talent for turning research ideas into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
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key-value-store10
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distributed-database10
acid10
databases9
sql-database9
database9
database-administration9
java7
javas7
go7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jul 2017 - Mar 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the FoundationDB project by addressing code-related issues. Their work involved removing unused code, merging branches, and fixing static initialization order. They also made changes to Java bindings and the trace logging system. The user's contributions suggest a focus on code maintenance and improvements across different aspects of the project's codebase.
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TheBenCollins/foundationdb
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
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