Ben Force
Lead SOAR Developer at Vanguard
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBen Force is a Lead SOAR Developer and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience blending security automation, cloud engineering, and developer experience. At Vanguard he has driven cross-functional security programs—from tuning SAST to architecting Unified Vulnerability Management—and shifted platforms toward reproducible infrastructure as code across multi-account AWS deployments. Hands-on in full-stack and back-end work, Ben contributes to notable open-source projects like Continue (an AI code assistant) and Jovo, implementing integrations for Jira, GitLab MRs, and enhanced Alexa audio metadata. He holds six AWS certifications, an MS in Information Science, and a track record of reducing operational friction (for example, an 80% cut in SAST false positives and major VDI process improvements). Colocated in Phoenix, he combines pragmatic automation with product-minded UX improvements, frequently surfacing subtle telemetry-driven fixes that improve both security posture and developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Communication and Media Studies, B.A Communication and Media Studies at Temple UniversityM.S. Information Science, M.S. Information Science at Penn State Great Valley
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Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jovotech/jovo-framework
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
🔈 The React for Voice and Chat: Build Apps for Alexa, Messenger, Instagram, the Web, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development of the Jovo framework's Alexa integration, specifically focusing on enhancing the handling of audio player features. They added support for metadata in audio player streams, enabling features like track titles and artwork. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating and improving the Chatbase analytics for Alexa, including message formatting and data collection. These changes suggest a focus on improving the Alexa platform support within the Jovo framework.
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continuedev/continue
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
⏩ Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 6 comments, 1 issue in 23 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the implementation of a Jira integration for the `continue` project, an AI-powered code assistant. Their work involved creating a Jira context provider, including functionality to fetch and display Jira issues and comments within the code assistant's context. This included adding API abstraction, updating the `adf2md` package, and merging in changes from the main branch. The user also worked on GitLab Merge Request integration.
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