Ben has 16+ years of hands-on engineering experience and holds AWS architecture credentials. He leads teams through large migrations, greenfield builds, and modernization efforts — turning ambiguous requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems.
Before Surton, Ben worked with Chris as a founding engineer at BriteCore, the modern insurance platform, where he helped shape the platform's early architecture and engineering practices. His work spans event-driven architectures, containers and serverless, data pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
Clients lean on Ben when they need a technical leader who can move from whiteboard decisions to production details without losing the thread between business risk, delivery speed, and system quality.
