Ben Dicken

Head of Design

United States16 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Developer Education and Database technologies.
Led teams to enhance developer skills in complex systems.
Extensive experience in teaching and software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Database and Developer Education expert with a strong background in software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer EducationDatabasesTeachingComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringProgram AnalysisDatabase ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSystems AnalysisWeb Development

Other Skills

InfrastructurePlanetScale productVitessMySQLPostgresCourse developmentPythonMobile appsSystems programmingOperating systemsSoftware toolsStatic program analysisDynamic program analysisLLVMIntel Pin

About

Developer Educator and Software Engineer. Find me at benjdd.com.

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Planetscale

2 roles

Head of Developer Education

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Leading the Developer Education team + teaching engineers all things databases and infrastructure.

Developer EducationDatabasesInfrastructure

Developer Educator

Jan 2024 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Developer education around the PlanetScale product, Vitess, MySQL, Postgres, and all things databases.

PlanetScale productVitessMySQLPostgresDatabasesDeveloper Education

Department of computer science at the university of arizona

Senior Lecturer, Computer Science

Jan 2017 – Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 11 mos

Teaching and developing CS courses at the University of Arizona. Intro programming (Python), web dev, mobile apps, systems programming, and operating systems.

TeachingCourse developmentPythonWeb developmentMobile appsSystems programming+2

Dataware ventures

Research Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Writing software tools for static and dynamic program analysis with LLVM, Intel Pin, Valgrind, gdb, rr, and more. Both contributing to existing codebases and developing new tools from scratch. Investigated performance improvement opportunities for PostgreSQL and Oracle. C, C++, Python, Java.

Software toolsStatic program analysisDynamic program analysisLLVMIntel PinValgrind+8

The university of arizona

2 roles

Research Programmer

Aug 2012 – Jan 2013 · 5 mos

Working on software system is designed for query execution and query runtime analysis for popular DBMSs like Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and MySQL.

Query executionQuery runtime analysisDBMSOracleDB2Postgres+3

Systems Analyst

Aug 2009 – Aug 2012 · 3 yrs

Server administration, developing and maintaining web applications, and troubleshooting hardware and software issues for faculty, staff and student computers.

Server administrationWeb applicationsTroubleshootingSystems AnalysisWeb Development