Ben Huntsman
Senior Consultant at Converge Technology Solutions Corp.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Huntsman is a seasoned senior consultant and solutions architect with 16 years designing and delivering enterprise IBM Power, AIX, and IBM i migrations and storage architectures from Portland, Oregon. He specializes in large-scale cloud migrations—particularly IBM Power for Google Cloud—and is a recognized subject matter expert in IBM i cloud migration, backup solutions like FalconStor, and MIMIX for AIX, with co-authorship on an IBM RedBook. Ben blends deep hands-on systems engineering (storage, PowerVM, VMware, SANs) with pre-sales and customer-facing roles, guiding Proofs of Concept and multi-site enterprise deliveries for financial, logistics, and healthcare customers. He’s also an open-source contributor to the Plan 9 from User Space project, improving AIX compatibility and build tooling—an indication of his low-level systems chops beyond commercial stacks. A pragmatic team leader and co-founder of a pet-tech retail startup, he pairs technical depth with an entrepreneurial streak and a knack for translating complex infrastructure into reliable, business-focused solutions.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Administration and Management, General at Concordia University-Portland
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Github Skills (12)
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system-programming9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
9fans/plan9port
Jul 2009 - May 2022
Plan 9 from User Space
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 12 PRs in 13 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the compatibility of the Plan 9 from User Space project with the AIX operating system. Their contributions included fixing include paths, adding AIX-specific implementation files, and modifying build scripts. They also addressed issues related to AIX support in various components like the `9term` and `libdraw` libraries, as well as optimizing code and fixing GUI programs for the AIX platform. Furthermore, the user added support for the Big Archive Format under AIX.
userspace
bhuntsman/openafs
Sep 2022 - Oct 2025
Backport of OpenAFS to AIX 4.1.
Contributions:25 pushes, 6 branches, 3 tags in 3 years 1 month
backportaix
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