## Currently...
* Senior EM at [People Inc.](https://www.people.inc/)
## Career Experience
* **people.inc** -
* Productivity, Delivery (CI/CD), and Developer Experience
* Serving 500+ engineers
* **formsort.com** - empowers product teams to build and optimize their most important forms - onboarding, check-ins, quizzes and more.
* First product hire
* Helping people create powerful and beautiful forms
* **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
* **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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* [More Photos](http://bennicholes.github.io/assets/eatrank-images.pdf)
* **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
## School and Certifications
* University of Nevada, Reno - 17'
* B.S Computer Science
* Minor in Business Administration
* Minor in Mathematics