Ben Smith
Senior Program Manager, Trust & Safety Policy at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Smith is a Senior Program Manager in Trust & Safety Policy at Google with a decade of experience building scalable compliance systems that protect billions of Android users. He blends technical roots in SRE and DevOps—Golang, Python, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure—with a people-first approach to improve teams and vendor performance. Ben has a track record of turning incident response and support insights into durable tooling and processes, from on-call firefighting to enterprise SOX compliance projects. A founding member of an internal "seal team sox," he uniquely pairs hands-on engineering credibility with policy and operational leadership. Based in Seattle and open to book recommendations, he focuses on sustainable improvements that help people work better, not just faster.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Auburn University
Github Skills (33)
truffle8
pyautogui7
to-do7
python7
infrastructure6
google-cloud-run6
google-cloud6
image-recognition6
gcp6
database5
devops5
ansible5
scale5
automation5
searching5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bws0013/read_13f
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:68 commits, 16 PRs, 61 pushes in 6 months
pythonfilings13fpython3database
bws0013/go_chef
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
My first attempt at a golang cookbook for centos
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
golangcentoscookbookchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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