# Benjamin Becker (@benjamin.bckr.me)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/benjamin.bckr.me
Headline: Director, Cloud and Platform Engineering @ Abarca Health | Certified ScrumMaster®
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

## About

Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

## Career

- **Director of Cloud and Platform Engineering at Abarca Health** (Jan 2026 - Present)
  San Juan, PR
- **Associate Director, DevOps at Abarca Health** (Aug 2024 - Jan 2026)
- **Director of Software Engineering at Northwoods** (Apr 2024 - Aug 2024)
  \- Managed a team of 5 engineering managers across a range of domains and concurrent workstreams
  \- Provided technical leadership across a variety of engineering domains and initiatives
  \- Collaborated with Product organization to develop and validate roadmap, include gen-ai initiatives
  \- Contributed technically on data visualization, cloud operations, and implementation efforts
  \- Managed and contributed to security initiatives, including policy development and third party audit
  \- Delivered product roadmap on time and on budget
- **DevOps Manager at Northwoods** (Feb 2022 - Apr 2024)
  Columbus, Ohio, US
  \- Managed and motivated inter-disciplinary Platform team to operate and extend the Traverse SaaS platform
  \- Collaborated with peer managers to develop and iterate upon software engineering practices and policies
  \- Collaborated with Product Management organization to develop product roadmap and set technical direction
  \- Supported, oversaw, and contributed technically to multiple Platform Team initiatives to deliver consolidated databases, audit pipelines, reporting infrastructure, and Kubernetes replatforming Developed code-escrow automation, data extraction tooling, and code-quality jobs
  \- Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for completion of key projects, fostering strong working relationships among team members.
  \- Founding member of Northwoods Security Team; responsibilities including developing policy, conducting exercises, and maintaining SOC2 certification
- **IT Manager at Path Robotics** (Jun 2021 - Feb 2022)
  Columbus, Ohio, US
  \- Managed vendor relationships for hardware, software, and services procurement, ensuring quality products at competitive prices
  \- Collaborated with other departments to help meet IT needs and properly integrate and secure systems Developed and implemented measures and procedures to protect IT systems from cyber threats and data breaches
  \- Establish cloud operations infrastructure featuring centralized configuration repositories, Terraform and Ansible automation, and lights-out remote support tooling
  \- Bootstrapped IT department, including ticketing systems, KPIs, identity management tooling, AI workstation provisioning (Ubuntu Desktop), and documented SOPs
- **Lead of Technical Operations at Corelight** (Nov 2017 - Jun 2021)
  Columbus, Ohio, US
  \- Hired and grew cross-discipline team supporting cloud service implementation/operations and IT/Infrastructural services across the organization, with a focus on supporting R&D
  \- Architected and implemented robust cloud backend for management of and telemetry collection from a geographically distributed deployment of 1000s of customer devices using automation and configuration management, containerization, Golang, and lambda driven serverless technology
  \- Developed integrations between Corelight Cloud Services and Sales Operations tooling for asset management and licensing
  \- Developed systems and processes for onboarding and scaling technical operations team with a focus on DevOps practices
  \- Performed technology selection and deployment of SSO platform and Zero-Trust security strategies.

## Publications

- Implementing standard.site — bckr.me (Jun 2026) https://bckr.me/posts/2026/standard.site
- Commit to Main — bckr.me (Jan 2026) https://bckr.me/posts/2026/commit-to-main
- Updates — bckr.me (Jun 2025) https://bckr.me/posts/2025/updates
- Homelab 2.5 Ideas — bckr.me (May 2025) https://bckr.me/posts/2025/homelab-2.5-ideas
- New Radio Day — bckr.me (Nov 2023) https://bckr.me/posts/2023/new-radio-day
- Fresh Paint — bckr.me (May 2023) https://bckr.me/posts/2023/fresh-paint
- Authenticated Repositories — bckr.me (Jan 2020) https://bckr.me/posts/2020/authenticated-repositories

## Skills

### Technical
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Artificial Intelligence
- DevOps
- Docker
- Generative AI
- Go (Programming Language)
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Microsoft Azure
- Terraform
### Business
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
### Interpersonal
- People Management
### Other
- Auth0
- HIPAA Compliance
- IPSec
- Serverless Computing

## Credentials

- Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) — Scrum Alliance (Apr 2021 - Apr 2027) https://bcert.me/sbesjtwel

## Education

- **Franklin University** — Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Sep 2016 - Aug 2021)
  Completed bachelor's degree while working full-time.
  \- Dean's List Winter 2018
  \- President's List Summer & Fall 2019, Spring & Summer 2020
  \- magna cum laude graduate

## Languages

- Spanish (elementary)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckerbenjamin
- dns: https://tartarus.us
- dns: https://bckr.me
- steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198089061781
- github: https://github.com/blbecker