Ben Fischer
Senior Director Of Engineering at Doximity
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBen Fischer is a Senior Director of Engineering in Chicago with 11 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, SRE, and developer platform teams at Doximity. He blends hands-on technical leadership—designing Kubernetes operator-based platforms, observability, and reliability tooling—with strategic roadmapping and coaching to drive business outcomes. Ben has grown SRE capability from the ground up, led incident response, and improved developer velocity with pragmatic tooling like cloud-based local dev environments. He values simple, reliable solutions and fosters diverse, empathetic teams where teaching and learning happen daily. Beyond infrastructure, his background spans full-stack web development and ad platform features, giving him a strong product-oriented perspective. Colleagues describe him as a creative problem-solver who prefers durable, easy-to-understand systems over clever-but-fragile fixes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Marmion AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Augustana College
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Github Skills (64)
angularjs-directive10
angularjs10
telemetry10
application-server9
ruby9
appserver9
distributed-tracing9
http9
http-client9
opentelemetry9
elasticsearch8
webserver8
documentation8
opentracing8
nodejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benedictfischer09/ruby-kafka-instrumentation
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
Open Tracing instrumentation for the ruby-kafka gem
Contributions:10 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
opentracingruby-kafka
doximity/ruby-sidekiq-tracer
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
Public fork of: https://github.com/iaintshine/ruby-sidekiq-tracer
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 4 PRs in 4 years
instrumentationtracingsidekiqdistributed-tracingopentracing
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