Ben Follis
Principal Architect at Adobe
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolBen Follis is a Principal Architect and backend performance specialist with over 8 years of industry experience and a long history of designing scalable, cloud-native systems. He has driven large migrations and performance gains at Adobe—moving massive document stores to AWS and improving customer-facing workflows by up to 300%—and has led API-first engineering and returns platform work at Narvar. As a founder of Uclusion he built a meeting-free project management product end-to-end using Python Lambdas, DynamoDB/S3, API Gateway and React, blending startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade architecture. Ben combines hands-on coding, security-minded architecture reviews, and mentor-level leadership to shape roadmaps and coaching across teams. Based in Las Vegas, he pairs an M.S. in Computer Science with practical devops and server migration expertise that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes automation and tooling.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University at AlbanyB.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Gustavus Adolphus College
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Github Skills (21)
quill9
aws-amplify9
aws-s39
wysiwyg9
react9
rich-text-editor9
aws-mobile8
mobile-analytics8
amazon-cognito8
aws8
storage8
aws-apigateway8
react-native7
cloud-services7
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uclusionopensource/react-formdata-wizard
Sep 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Uclusion/github-cognito-openid-wrapper
May 2020 - Aug 2023
Small shim that allows AWS Cognito to talk to github (by providing an OpenID wrapper around the Github API)
Contributions:13 releases, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
apiopenidshimaws-cognitocognito
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