Ben Fersenheim
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Fersenheim is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping large-scale platform and device-management features at Microsoft, currently focused on Intune. He has a strong track record of driving protocol and security work across Internet-scale systems—helping move Bing to HTTPS, enabling multi-tenant SSL, and adding IPv6 and HTTP/2 support for major Microsoft services. Ben blends hands-on engineering with program leadership, having built and scaled the Garage Internship program that recruited hundreds of diverse interns and ran dozens of product experiments. Earlier roles include leading sustained engineering for MDOP and co-founding a startup delivering services to game developers, showing both operational rigor and entrepreneurial instinct. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs deep systems and Windows platform expertise with experience mentoring teams and converting experimental projects into production impact. An understated contributor, he often tackles the plumbing work that unlocks product launches and enterprise-scale migrations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (56)
vscode10
asdf9
git9
youtube9
twitch9
karabiner9
debian-packaging9
streaming8
github8
stream8
periscope7
ubuntu7
installer7
access-token7
powershell6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benferse/benferse
Aug 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 review, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
benferse/wsl2-systemd
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
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