Ben 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.
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