Summary
Ben Mclean is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently driving Robot Ops work at Forterra. He has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch from multi-year roles at Oracle where he contributed to observability, security, and networking stacks and built testing and sandbox environments. Comfortable across DevOps and software engineering, he writes design proposals, mentors interns, and has practical skills in compiling third-party apps to remove security vulnerabilities. Based in Boston, his engineering background in astronautics and early internships with aerospace and defense organizations fuel a long-standing interest in eVTOL, commercial and defense aviation, and space launch innovations.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics, 3.73/4.00 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics, 3.73/4.00 GPA at University of Wisconsin-Madison