Summary
Ben Patterson is a strategic senior engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling teams and shipping secure, enterprise-grade products from seed-stage startups to Series B growth. Currently Head of Engineering at Cypress.io, he has a track record of operationalizing AI adoption, delivering AI-powered features to market, and driving new ARR streams through premium product work. He blends deep hands-on technical knowledge across backend, frontend, infra, and security with pragmatic leadership that reduces cycle times, improves uptime, and maintains strong employee retention. Ben has repeatedly led organizations to SOC 2 and stronger compliance postures while cutting onboarding and resolution times through process and tool investments. He is equally comfortable diving into infrastructure migrations, cost optimizations, and developer productivity initiatives as he is recruiting and mentoring cross-functional engineering leaders. Based in Boston, he pairs a tangible history of measurable operational improvements with a talent for turning complex technical risk into auditable, ship-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at cathedral high school el paso
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at Carleton College