Ben Flowers
Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco
Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Flowers is a Technical Solutions Architect with 11 years of focused experience in data center technologies, currently advising Cisco customers from his base in Wadsworth, Illinois. He brings deep expertise in storage networking, optical networking, WAN optimization, and unified I/O, having progressed through roles from Consulting Systems Engineer to Hyperconverged Product Specialist and back into solutions architecture. Ben is skilled at translating complex infrastructure requirements into pragmatic designs that balance performance, scalability, and operational simplicity. His long tenure at Cisco reflects both technical depth and continuity in delivering large-scale networking and storage solutions. Colleagues rely on him for bridging product capabilities to real-world deployment constraints, and he often surfaces subtle trade-offs between architectural elegance and manageability. Outside projects are understated, suggesting a practitioner who prioritizes reliable production outcomes over public-facing profiles.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bflowers/cicd_demoapp
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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bflowers/imapex101
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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