About Ben

I'm a cloud architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing systems that scale and teams that thrive. I'm the founder of StackShift, a consulting and IT company that partners with technology leaders and engineering teams on strategy, AI advisory, technical coaching, and hands-on development. My work spans greenfield cloud builds, legacy modernization programs, and the platform engineering layer that lives between them.

I've spent most of my career in the Microsoft ecosystem — Azure, .NET, and the broader enterprise stack — but I hold strong opinions about polyglot architectures and building for operational reality, not just architectural elegance.

Outside the day job, I'm an active speaker at developer and architecture conferences. I care deeply about making complex topics accessible, and I believe the best technical talks leave the audience with something they can use on Monday morning.

When I'm not thinking about distributed systems or CI/CD pipelines, you'll find me somewhere outdoors, probably with a bad map and a good attitude.