Ben Neil
Founding Member Principal Engineer at Red Thread AI
Brighton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Neil is a founding member and principal engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable, automated platforms and mentoring teams in modern engineering practices. He has led and scaled startups as CTO and co-founder in the online gaming and compliance spaces, turning repetitive, manual workflows into automated, reliable systems used by regulated customers. Comfortable across the stack—from functional programming and JVM instrumentation to Kubernetes-based deployments—Ben blends pragmatic engineering with a habit of lifelong learning and technology curiosity. He recently focused on zero-to-one platform builds as a consultant before moving to a stealth next-generation platform at Red Thread AI. Known as a "functional programmer and automation mechanic," he values creativity, reflection, and finding the right solution for real-world constraints. Based in Brighton, Colorado, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of shipping production-grade automation where correctness and regulatory risk matter.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at DeVry University
Github Skills (110)
qt10
giter810
continuous-testing9
browser9
sbt-plugin9
virtualization9
python9
vim9
serverless9
unikernel9
qtwebengine9
edge-computing9
devops9
qutebrowser9
http4s9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bneil/bneil.github.io
Mar 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:398 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 3 months
bneil/bneil
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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