Rob Benson

CTO

Munich, Bavaria, Germany20 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams at multiple high-profile tech companies.
  • Expert in scalable systems and cloud computing technologies.
  • Proven track record in engineering management and product design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in cloud computing and scalable systems engineering.

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Skills

Other Skills

ScalabilityDistributed SystemsCompilersX86X64VirtualizationMemcachedCLinux KernelHadoopRuby on RailsLinuxUnixPerlVMware

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Anagram ltd

VP of Engineering, Product, and Design

Jan 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

Servicenow

Vice President of Engineering, Product, and Design

Jun 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I lead Engineering, Product, and Design at Lightstep which was acquired by ServiceNow.

Lightstep

3 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Jun 2020Jun 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I lead Engineering, Product, and Design at Lightstep.

VP of Engineering, Product, and Design

Jun 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

VP of Engineering

Sep 2018Jun 2019 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Confluent

Senior Director Of Engineering at Confluent

Jan 2017Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Palo Alto, CA

  • Confluent Cloud

Twitter

5 roles

Senior Director of Engineering, Mobile Ad Exchange

Promoted

Mar 2014Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Led the MoPub engineering team.

Sr. Director of Engineering, Runtime Systems

Sep 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Created and led the Runtime Systems org working on Twitter's cloud, data, analytics, and runtime infrastructure.

Engineering Director, Runtime Systems

Promoted

Jul 2011Aug 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • The Runtime Systems org is now over 40+ people and consists of 8 teams. They continue to focus on building a scalable foundation for the Twitter software stack. #AmazingEngineers

Engineering Manager, Runtime Systems

Dec 2010Jul 2011 · 7 mos

  • Managing the Runtime Systems team which is focused on helping scale out the Twitter infrastructure. Some highlights are using Redis to be our replicated timeline cache, reworking memcache internals to more effectively deal with slab calcification, built a real time stats collection and monitoring stack, Mesos, Finagle, and more. This team is a fantastic group of engineers.

Performance Technical Lead

May 2010Dec 2010 · 7 mos

  • Working with a great team of folks to kill "The Twitter Whale". This included hacking on memcache internals, the ruby interpreter, rails code, and more. #lovenest

Vmware

2 roles

Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) Staff Engineer

Apr 2006Apr 2010 · 4 yrs

  • Member of the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) engineering team. The VMM is the basis for all of VMware's virtualization products. I worked on many projects including general CPU virtualization, deterministic replay, and a scalable instrumentation / code injection system.

Partner Engineer

Jul 2005Apr 2006 · 9 mos

  • Worked with AMD and Intel to understand upcoming technology and how it will effect the virtualization market.

Sun microsystems

Market Development Engineer

Sep 2002Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Worked with Wall Street to adopt x86 solaris and the new 64-bit compiler toolchains.

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