Ben Silverman

Executive Director - CTO / ITSO - Site Reliability Engineering and Automation at Wells Fargo

Greater Phoenix Area, United States

About Ben Silverman

Ben Silverman is Executive Director - CTO / ITSO - Site Reliability Engineering and Automation at Wells Fargo. Location: Greater Phoenix Area, United States.

A highly motivated IT professional with over 30 years of experience, adept at collaboratively advising enterprises on solutions that drive efficiency, innovation, and velocity toward building competitive advantage through emerging technology. Ben has advanced knowledge in building enterprise automation solutions using Ansible, implementing container management architectures with OpenShift and Kubernetes, and streamlining virtual infrastructure provisioning through platforms like OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, and VMware. Demonstrates success in analyzing enterprise challenges to apply the correct products and solutions using commercial and open-source products for complex architectures. Previoudly, as the open-source lead for multiple ISV companies, Ben has a proven track record in product management, creating and launching innovative products, and delivering customer service. Skills: 5g, Advanced Cluster Manager, Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, Azure, AWS, CI/CD, Cloud, Communications, Competitive, Containers, DevOps, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, K8s, Linux, Mentorship, Networking Concepts, Open source software, OpenShift, OpenStack, Podman, Principal Marketing Manager, Principal Product Manager, RHEL, Red Hat, Releases, Scripting, SDN, Serverless, Strategy, Teamwork skills, Telecommunications, Terraform, ArgoCD, MongoDB, Virtualization, Writing

Skills

  • Operations Management
  • Change Management
  • Business Communications

Additional experience

  • Principal Architect

    Crossvale

    June 2023 – May 2024

Education

  • Master of Science - MS, W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
  • Bachelor of Arts - BA, Lebanon Valley College