Ben Francom
Head Of DevOps at Zonos
Saint George, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBen 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. He’s 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 UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Technology at DeVry University
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Github Skills (59)
github-repos10
hashicorp9
microservices8
github-api8
infrastructure8
security8
pandora8
terraform7
aws7
automation7
dx7
backstage7
github7
reporting-services6
sql-server6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bfrancom/bfrancom.github.io.old
Jan 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
EISMGard/github-audit-tool
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
This is a tool for auditing github repos, users, and teams. Good for compliance, security and other stuff.
Contributions:7 reviews, 21 commits, 85 PRs in 6 months
github-repossecurity
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