Ben Schaechter
Co-Founder & CEO at FinOps Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schaechter is a serial founder and product-led CEO with 14 years of experience building developer-focused cloud and consumer products, currently co-founding and leading Vantage, a cloud cost observability platform used by over 10,000 companies. He blends hands-on engineering—evident from contributions to projects like an EC2 instance comparison site where he added GPU and spot pricing support—with strategic product leadership at AWS (containers) and DigitalOcean (compute revenue growth from ~$90M to ~$250M ARR). Ben has a track record of founding and scaling startups from prototype to acquisition (GoPollGo → Yahoo) and launching consumer products that reached millions and earned editorial recognition. He serves on the FinOps Foundation Governing Board, reflecting his influence in cloud financial operations beyond his company. Based in New York, he combines technical depth in backend systems with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit and investor confidence, having raised $25M from top-tier backers. An understated strength is his ability to move between low-level engineering changes and high-level go-to-market strategy, making him effective at both shipping features and scaling businesses.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Systems, BS, Management Information Systems at Creighton University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
ec10
amazon-ec210
gpgpu10
aws10
gpu10
python10
accelerated-computing10
webscraping9
hbase6
large-data6
amazon-cloudwatch6
cost-management6
amazon-emr6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-ecs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the EC2 instances comparison site. They focused on enhancing the data processing capabilities by adding detailed GPU information for various instance types, specifically for the G5 and P4D families. Their work involved modifying the `scrape.py` file to incorporate new GPU models, CUDA core counts, and memory details, along with the corresponding updates to the presentation of instance types. The user also updated `ec2.py` with spot pricing data and improved overall presentation.
ecscost-optimizationec2finopscost-estimation
vantage-sh/docs.vantage.sh
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Official documentation repository for Vantage
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
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