Ben Echols
Product Engineer at temporalio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Echols is a product leader with 11 years of experience building developer-facing and platform products, now directing Temporal Cloud product strategy from San Francisco. His background spans startups and scale-ups—from co-founding Nemo to leading product at Confluent and Atlassian—focused on platforms, APIs, integrations, and making complex systems usable. He has recent hands-on experience translating LLM capabilities into enterprise workflows and shipping cloud-native developer tooling. Known for bridging technical depth and go-to-market execution, Ben runs cross-functional teams to turn infrastructure and data challenges into straightforward product experiences. His academic foundation in cognitive science and philosophy informs a user-centered, systems-thinking approach to product decisions. Colleagues describe him as an operator who comfortably moves between CEO-level strategy and detailed product design trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
monitoring10
avro10
cdc10
confluent10
docker10
temporal10
connect10
kafka10
confluent-platform10
docusaurus10
purgecss9
visjs9
kubernetes9
jdbc9
debezium9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bechols/bechols-dotcom
Feb 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:16 PRs, 78 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years
bechols/bechols-gatsby-netlify
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Personal site built with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify
Contributions:23 PRs, 39 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 7 months
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