Benjamin Kearns
Head Of AI Domestication
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kearns is a seasoned applied technologist and product-focused engineering leader with 17 years of experience building hardware-software systems that go from prototype to commercial scale across energy, robotics, and life sciences. As Head of AI Domestication and former CTO/VP roles at Volley, Resilience, Stem and others, he repeatedly bridges ambitious technical vision with capital-efficient execution—shipping the world’s first behind-the-meter storage bids into CAISO and architecting the digital backbone for an “AWS of Biomanufacturing.” He specializes in 0-to-1 builds but is relentlessly pragmatic, improving unit economics (e.g., cutting robot BOM ~70%) and driving field reliability to ~99% uptime. An inventor on 15+ US patents, he pairs hands-on systems design (edge-to-cloud, Kubernetes, Elixir) with operational rigor like GxP-aligned SDLCs and crisis leadership during ransomware recovery. Based in San Francisco, he thrives where complex physical systems, regulatory realities, and commercial constraints meet, turning novel tech into durable businesses.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Mathematics, BS Applied Mathematics at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (26)
robot7
testing5
iconv4
quickcheck4
home-assistant4
erlang4
rabbitmq3
property-based-testing3
keccak3
gleam3
hash3
digest3
ros3
spec3
amqp-client3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bkearns/gen_smtp
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:21 pushes in 4 days
smtperlangextendedgenericcallback
bkearns/iron
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 month
concurrencyrustfocusedmiddlewareweb-development
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