Summary
Ben Sandberg is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nearly three decades of technology experience and 13 years focused on cloud and platform engineering, currently driving internal compute services at major enterprises. He blends entrepreneurial roots—founding an IT services firm—with leadership roles at Nike and Apple, where he delivered cloud cost optimizations, maintained 99.99% SLOs for revenue-critical platforms, and enabled enterprise AI tooling for thousands of developers. Ben specializes in private cloud and on‑prem Kubernetes solutions, infrastructure-as-code, and developer-facing platform services that reduce operational toil and scale securely. He has a track record of translating business priorities into engineering roadmaps that save millions and foster active developer communities. Based in Portland, Oregon, he pairs hands‑on automation expertise with empathetic team leadership and a knack for practical, reusable tooling.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Business, Math, Computer Science, Business, Math at Portland Community College