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.