Benjamin Nicholes

Currently…

• Located in New York, NY
• Previously in Reno, NV
• Product at bombora

Career Experience

• better.com - buy or refinance your home with Better Mortgage for a seamless online mortgage experience
  • Product Manager - 2020 - Present
  • Champion developer experience for 250+ engineers through creating tools that make their lives easier
  • Grew Kafka usage from 0 -> 30+ organization wide topics powering critical business functions through millions of monthly events
• bombora - the largest aggregator of B2B intent data
  • Technical Product Manager - 2018 - 2020
  • Lead development team for API offerings across Bombora’s core data set
  • Lead development team for Bombora’s Domain Append tool, reducing turn around time by 90% with an 80% accuracy for domain assignment
  • Lead development team for integrating Bombora Surge data into Marketo, HubSpot, and Oracle Eloqua Marketing Automation platforms supporting millions of object syncs weekly

  • Lead development team for integrating Bombora Surge data into LinkedIn Matched Audiences and Facebook Custom Audiences, reducing on average over 50% reduction in CPC and CPM and increasing on average over 40% click-thru rates

  • DevOps Engineer - 2016 - 2018
  • Produce Jenkins Builds and Workflows for .NET, Java, and Docker/Kubernetes applications ◦ * Manage and monitor Development and Production environments in AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Windows Server with Datadog and PRTG
  • Develop and Monitor Infrastructure and create Delivery Solutions in Python, Chef, AWS, and GCP
• eatrank - rate and share dishes at restaurants
  • Co-Founder - 2016 - 2017
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• ustyme - share books and games in a real-time video call
  • QA/Devops Engineer
  • 2015 - 2016
  • Develop end-to-end tests in QUnit
  • Develop and Monitor Infrastructure in AWS

Favorite Technologies

• AWS
• Chef
• Python
• CentOS
• Jenkins
• Datadog

School and Certifications

• University of Nevada, Reno - 17’
  • B.S Computer Science
  • Minor in Business Administration
  • Minor in Mathematics

Other Interests

• Blockchain
• Finance/Investing
• Film/TV
• The Mets (I love to hate them)
• Food
• Languages