ben hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. ben currently holds the position of Principal Engineer at Honeycomb.io, a role they assumed in April 2023. Prior to this, they served as a Staff Platform Engineer at the same company from August 2022 to April 2023. From July 2019 to August 2022, they held the position of Engineering Manager, leading the Platform Engineering team at Honeycomb.io. Ben's earlier experience includes working as an Engineer at the company from March 2016 to July 2019.

Before joining Honeycomb.io, Ben worked at several other notable companies. From 2013 to 2016, they served as a Production Engineer at Facebook. Prior to that, they worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Parse from October 2012 to May 2013. From July 2011 to August 2012, they worked as an Operations Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation. Ben also has experience working at Linden Lab as a Systems Engineering Manager from July 2009 to July 2011 and as a Systems Engineer from September 2007 to July 2009. ben worked as a Sr. System Administrator at Simply Hired from November 2005 to June 2007 and as a System Administrator from November 2004 to November 2005.

Ben's early career includes roles such as an Integration Engineer at Adax from 2001 to 2003 and as an RCC at UC Berkeley Residential Computing from 1997 to 1999. Throughout their career, Ben has gained expertise in various areas including platform engineering, system administration, and engineering management.

Ben Hartshorne attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2001. ben obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cognitive Science during this period.