Ben Warren
Principal Engineer at Cisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Warren is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of embedded software and security experience, currently shaping Cisco's platform products from the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends deep low-level expertise in C/C++ with higher-level systems work in Go and Python, having designed secure boot, PKI/HSM integrations, and per-VM encryption across commercial products. His background spans startups and large vendors—building bootloaders, OS ports to new microcontrollers, Kubernetes-based hypervisor platforms, and integration test infrastructure for automotive and robotics systems. Notably, he helped stand up Cariad’s Silicon Valley office and has a track record of upstreaming low-level improvements (e.g., QEMU VM Generation ID work) that reduce maintenance burden. A Johns Hopkins M.S. graduate with a hands-on leadership style, he often mentors engineers while shipping security-critical features end-to-end.
18 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.Sc. Engineering Physics, B.Sc. Engineering Physics at Queen's University
Github Skills (45)
libvirt10
virtio10
u-boot10
vms10
windows-driver10
qemu9
hyper-v9
kvm9
wdf9
vdi9
ndis9
wdm9
api9
virtualization9
windows8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skyportsystems/go-sqlite3
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 11 months
golangsql-databasesqlsqlite3sqlite3-driver
skyportsystems/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
windows
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