Benjamin Buick

Democratizing Real-Time Data Streaming & making data-centric teams happy around the world. Working on Kadeck, your team's tool belt for Apache Kafka and data streaming in general. Minimize operational effort for common Kafka tasks by up to 90% and reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by as much as 75%.

Benjamin Buick has been a freelance software architect and technology team lead responsible for strategic projects in the data streaming space across multiple industries. From developing a location-based real-time social network as CTO, working on QNX (a real-time operating system used e.g., in cars and planes), architecting and implementing a energy metering platform to being technically responsible for implementing a strategic data streaming platform at Aareal Bank AG and guiding several teams.

CTO of a location-based real-time social network start-up. My area of competence was building up the whole IT infrastructure and platform for location-based content, recruiting and managing multiple teams and designing the product features.

Meine Aufgabe bestand darin, das zentrale Produkt technisch als auch fachlich mit dem CEO zu konzipieren, die notwendige technische Infrastruktur in sehr kurzer Zeit aufzubauen. Dabei musste neben dem Zeitfaktor aber auch die technischen Schulden berücksichtigt werden. Darüber hinaus war meine Aufgabe, ein Offshore-Team anzuleiten und das Produkt unter Berücksichtigung und Zusammenführung der technischen Möglichkeiten, dem Marketing und dem Verkauf auszurollen.