Ben Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Little Elm, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of focused experience delivering telecom and database solutions, currently at Capital One after roles in IAM and analytic storage engineering. He combines deep hardware and embedded software roots with a strong Linux and protocols background, which helps him diagnose and resolve thorny cross-layer issues from kernel drivers to distributed storage features. Ben has led product release cycles end-to-end—requirements, design, implementation, testing, and field support—bringing pragmatic rigor from his test-engineering days to software development. Comfortable in fast-paced, team-oriented environments, he thrives on challenging integrations and has a track record of productizing complex systems like MariaDB ColumnStore for analytics. Based in Little Elm, Texas, he pairs a software engineering BS with business finance training, giving him both technical depth and a practical sense for product impact.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (9)
databases10
storage10
percona10
mysql10
mariadb10
faunadb10
database10
dbms9
storage-engine9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-server
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Modified version of MariaDB for ColumnStore
Contributions:65 commits in 2 years 9 months
mysqlperconacolumnstoremodifieddatabase
mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-tools
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:49 commits in 2 years 3 months
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