Benjamin Cane
Distinguished Engineer at American Express
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorBenjamin Cane is a Distinguished Engineer with 14 years of experience building highly available, high-performance payment platforms at American Express, where he leads small teams of senior engineers to design cloud-native transaction processing systems. He has driven adoption of service mesh, gRPC/HTTP2, Prometheus metrics, and Golang-based routing/load-balancing in mission-critical card networks, combining infrastructure and software architecture expertise. Earlier roles span hands-on continuous-availability operations, clustered storage and Oracle RAC design, and scaling web hosting platforms—giving him deep operational instincts for five-nines availability. Benjamin is also an advocate for DevOps practices, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing, and he has a track record of introducing open-source tools across large enterprises. Based in Phoenix, he blends pragmatic engineering leadership with low-level systems experience, often surfacing non-obvious improvements like transaction tracing and synchronous cross-datacenter file systems to reduce systemic risk.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (112)
python10
testing10
health-check10
bitnami10
infrastructure10
dockerfile10
serverless10
remote-execution10
monitoring10
boltdb10
self-healing10
linux10
runbook10
golang10
functions-as-a-service10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
madflojo/blog
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
Source files from my Linux Sysadmin Blog
Contributions:277 commits, 98 PRs, 216 pushes in 8 years 2 months
linux
tarmac-project/wapc-toolkit
Dec 2023 - Dec 2025
Collection of packages for Go applications using WebAssembly Procedure Calls (waPC)
Contributions:7 releases, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years
go-applicationwebassemblygogolangwapc
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