Ben Watrous
Principle Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Watrous is a principal software engineering manager at Microsoft with 12+ years building and leading cloud and HPC solutions, particularly for Azure Batch and CycleCloud. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Python, Java, C++ and Bash with architect-level knowledge of cloud security and best practices to drive adoption of high-performance computing in finance, life sciences, computational chemistry and manufacturing. His career threads product development, customer-facing solution architecture and program management—from early FPGA and distributed rendering work to orchestrating large-scale cloud workloads. At Cycle Computing and Microsoft he translated complex on-premise HPC needs into scalable cloud services, frequently engaging directly with customers to shape product direction. Based in Redmond, he leverages an electrical engineering background from Cornell to bridge hardware-aware thinking with cloud-native software design. Colleagues know him for pairing rigorous technical depth with pragmatic delivery and cross-team influence.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (63)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
symphony9
slurm9
spectrum9
cycle9
blender8
lsf8
marketplace8
azure-batch8
calculator8
azure-cosmos-db8
job-scheduler8
nodejs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/cyclecloud-nfs
Aug 2018 - Nov 2024
CycleCloud project to enable use of NFS filers in HPC clusters in Azure.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 6 years 4 months
nfsinfinibandcyclecloudclustershpc-clusters
Azure/cyclecloud-data-science-vm
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Azure CycleCloud project to enable running the Azure Data Science VM Marketplace offering instance.
Contributions:4 releases, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 1 month
marketplacesciencedata-sciencecyclecloudazure-cosmos-db
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