Ben Collins

Ben Collins has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. Ben currently serves as the Vice President of Engineering at Antithesis since September 2020. Previously, they worked at Facebook as an Engineering Manager from August 2019 to September 2020. Prior to that, Ben held the position of Senior Engineering Manager at Apple from March 2015 to June 2019, where they led the successful integration of the FoundationDB team and technology. Before their time at Apple, Ben worked at FoundationDB as an Engineering Manager from May 2014 to March 2015 and as a Senior Developer from August 2010 to April 2014. Ben was responsible for managing the Virginia engineering team, prioritizing engineering tasks, and sourcing and hiring candidates. At FoundationDB, they contributed to the development of a distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant database and worked on various tools and frameworks. Earlier in their career, Ben worked at The MITRE Corporation as a Lead Engineer from May 2005 to July 2010. Here, they worked on multi-domain data visualization technology and collaborated on developing a time-controlled, map-oriented visualization platform.

Ben Collins completed their high school education at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology from 1997 to 2001. Afterward, they pursued a degree in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they attended from 2001 to 2005 and graduated with a bachelor's degree.