Benjamin Kearns
Founder at Grounded Health
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 (22)
robot8
ai8
ai-agent8
home-assistant7
driver6
llm6
erlang5
consistent-hashing5
quickcheck4
cassandra4
property-based-testing4
graph-traversal4
rabbitmq3
rust3
ros3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ferrosadb/ferrosa
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:24 PRs, 195 pushes, 218 branches in 2 months
ferrosadb/ferrosa-memory
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Ferrosa Memory is an MCP-native memory server. Typed facts with history, plans, skills, graph relationships and folded context — returned by meaning, keyword, sound, or graph traversal. Forgetting is auditable and reversible.
Contributions:16 PRs, 83 pushes, 126 branches in 2 months
graphgraph-traversal
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