Ben Griffin
Senior Partner Solution Architect, Software Development Companies (ANZ) - Cloud & AI at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Griffin is a Senior Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft with three decades in IT and over a decade focused on Azure, cloud-native architecture and distributed databases. He specializes in designing scalable data platforms and NoSQL solutions—Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and MySQL—while building hands-on PoCs in Go, .NET, Python and NodeJS to accelerate partner and enterprise cloud adoption across ANZ and India. A Global Black Belt technologist, he bridges C‑level strategy and deep technical delivery, leading data‑modeling workshops and production-ready deployments using AKS, Event Hubs, Functions and GitHub/Bicep pipelines. He’s equally comfortable in pre-sales and engineering roles, having earned internal recognition for solution excellence and helped grow local container communities as a meetup organiser. Ben’s work is notable for combining pragmatic business outcomes with low-level engineering craft—often turning complex distributed data requirements into reproducible demos that de‑risk partner go‑to‑market initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dimension Data Learning SolutionsVCE, VCE at Mount Waverley Secondary CollegeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAmazon Web ServicesDockerBachelor of Computing, Multimedia Technology, Bachelor of Computing, Multimedia Technology at Deakin University
English
Github Skills (48)
microsoft10
architecture10
sdk10
rest10
azure-sdk-for-go10
golang10
azure10
azure-sdk9
microsoft-azure9
go9
documentation9
docker-compose8
docker-image7
nodejs7
kubectl7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
griffinbird/azure-container-labs
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Azure Container Labs - AKS, ACR, ACI, Web App for Containers, Service Fabric
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 day
containersfabricacrdockerazure-container
griffinbird/azure-sdk-for-go
Nov 2021 - Mar 2024
Microsoft Azure SDK for Go
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
golangsdkazure-sdkmicrosoft-azureazure
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