Hey, I'm Ben.
I'm a software engineer and solutions architect based in New Orleans. I build full-stack applications, cloud infrastructure, and AI-native tools — mostly because I can't stop thinking about how things could work better.
I didn't grow up wanting to be an engineer. I found my way into tech through General Assembly in 2018 — took the bootcamp, built some things, stayed up too late debugging, and somewhere along the way got genuinely hooked. First job out of bootcamp was at Kortivity in Austin, building a candidate sourcing tool. Owned the full stack from day one.
IBM was my proving ground. Almost five years — started as a Solutions Engineer in December 2019, promoted to Senior SE in 14 months. Worked with 12 enterprise customers, ran POCs with a 70% close rate, and served as the technical lead on a $10.1M SAP RISE deal for CenterPoint Energy. Learned how large organizations think, what makes technical trust hard to earn, and how to translate between business and engineering in both directions.
Prove AI was the opposite energy. January to September 2025. Startup pace, real ownership. I ran SRE across 4 production Kubernetes clusters, maintained 99.9% uptime, cut deploy times by 80%, and took SOC 2 Type II readiness from 34% to 100%. That nine months confirmed what I suspected: I work best when I have genuine responsibility for what I build.
Sproutflow Studio started in October 2025. It's the consultancy I'd been wanting to build — shipping real products for real people. Five client apps in production. Telehealth platforms, e-commerce stores, event booking. No handoffs. I lead discovery, scope architecture, build, and deploy.
Alongside Sproutflow, I'm deep in AI tooling. Greenlit started as something I built for my own job search. The prompt engineering framework started as notes I was keeping for myself. That's usually how the best stuff starts.
Learned to code late at night, shipped my first real project, and realized I actually loved this. Went from zero to employed in under a year.
First job out of bootcamp. Built a Vue/SQL-powered web extension for candidate sourcing. Contributed to 2 client closes before the contract ended. Owned the full SDLC from day one.
Promoted to Senior SE in 14 months. Led technical engagements for 12 enterprise customers — NBC Universal, Citibank, AT&T, CenterPoint Energy. Designed multi-cloud Kubernetes solutions across AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud. POC close rate of 70%. Directly contributed to a $10.1M SAP RISE deal by automating Terraform environments from 2 to 49, cutting provisioning from 2+ weeks to under 3 hours.
Startup pace after four years of enterprise. Owned production infrastructure across 4 Kubernetes clusters. Maintained 99.9% uptime, reduced deploy times by 80% through GitHub Actions automation, and led SOC 2 Type II readiness from 34% to 100%.
Five client apps shipped end-to-end — telehealth platforms, e-commerce stores, event booking. Lead technical discovery, scope architecture, build, and deploy. No handoffs. Small businesses deserve software that actually works.
I share everything
Most of my work is open source. If I figured something out, somebody else should be able to skip that part.
Depth over breadth
I'd rather really understand one thing than know the surface of twenty. But I'm also genuinely curious about almost everything.
Build first, theorize second
The best way to understand a thing is to make it. I reach for running code before I reach for frameworks.
People are the hard part
Six years in enterprise taught me that the technical problems are rarely the hardest ones. Communication, trust, and alignment matter more than most engineers want to admit.
New Orleans is a weird and wonderful place to live, and it suits me. There's something about a city that runs on music, food, and stubborn creativity that I find hard to leave.
I explore a lot — new tech, new tools, new ways of thinking about old problems. I've been building in public lately because I think the practice of explaining what you're doing forces you to understand it better.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make AI useful for people who aren't engineers — not just impressive, but actually helpful. That's the thread connecting most of what I build right now.
If you want to compare notes on any of this, I'm usually reachable.
Let's build something.
Currently open to full-stack, solutions engineering, and AI-focused roles.
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