Ben Terry

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VP of Engineering at Arbor Pay · Cloud infrastructure · AWS, Kubernetes

Arbor Pay
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
University of Alberta
English
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Arbor Pay, focused on cloud infrastructure. Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 25% in two quarters. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 5. Before that: Thomson Reuters and Sun Life.

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Skills
KubernetesGoTerraformAWS
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Hiring a founding frontend engineer for the infrastructure team - Vancouver

Role
Founding frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$183k-$229k + equity
Team
Infrastructure, 10 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with Terraform Production experience with AWS Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp C$134k-C$225k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Vancouver, BCawsgoterraform
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Aug 2023 - Present
    Arbor Pay · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 41% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 61 services to Terraform.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
    Thomson Reuters · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Shipped 6 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
    Sun Life · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 3.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
    Microsoft · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 38 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 3.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2013 - Nov 2016
    Manulife · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Moved 69% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Alberta
    BSc, Mathematics
    1999 - 2003

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