Summary
Ben Mishkanian is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend infrastructure for high-scale distributed systems, currently focused on object storage at Apple. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Davis and has a track record across major tech teams including Outreach, Facebook, and Illumina, where he bridged hardware and software for faster, more maintainable systems. Ben’s background ranges from production engineering at hyperscale services to designing simulators and messaging systems that accelerated testing and reduced duplicate product variants. He’s comfortable shipping across stacks and languages—having picked up C# to patch critical infrastructure in a week—and consistently finds early design issues that save time downstream. Based in Kirkland, WA, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on pragmatism for resilient, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
High School, High School at Leland High School
English, Persian, Spanish