Ben Hayden
Founder And CTO at Surton
Springfield, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolBen Hayden is a founder and CTO with ~15 years of hands-on experience designing data-focused cloud architectures and automating developer workflows. He leads Surton, a DevOps services firm that builds pipelines, automation, and developer tools, after scaling engineering organizations as VP of Engineering at BriteCore where he managed 100+ engineers and prioritized time-to-value for customers. His background blends infrastructure-as-code, AWS operations, CI/CD, and custom tooling (Slack bots, Lambdas, TeamCity), and he has deep Python and deployment roots dating back to building early insurance backends. Based in Springfield, MO, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a penchant for developer productivity—often delivering complete solutions with documentation and training—and continues to ship infrastructure improvements that reduce operational friction.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Missouri State University
English
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio-code-extension10
windows10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
ubuntu10
vim10
neomake10
gpu10
spacemacs10
linter10
linting10
terraform-module10
async10
linux10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
deybhayden/bagelbot
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
A Slackbot for arranging random pairings for "Coffee & Bagel" meetings
Contributions:25 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
slack-bot
deybhayden/bendows
Nov 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:142 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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