Ben Francom is a Head of DevOps and seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience driving cloud, security, and enterprise architecture transformations for global organizations. He combines hands-on mastery of cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, and FinOps with executive-level communication to influence 1000+ engineers and align cross-regional teams. Notable wins include securing a $12M Fortune 50 contract through elevated cloud security, migrating 17M accounts to cloud IDaaS to boost availability to 99.9%, and delivering $290K in cloud savings in three months. As a founder and open-source author, he built practical tools like the GitHub Audit Tool (194 stars) and pod2book.com, reflecting a habit of shipping developer-ready solutions that address accessibility and governance. Heβs equally at home mentoring communities of practice and architecting disaster recovery Kubernetes environments that saved $2.3M annually. Based in Saint George, Utah, Ben blends entrepreneurial curiosity with enterprise-scale delivery to turn complex risk and cost challenges into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Management, Master's degree Information Management at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Technology at DeVry University
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