Ben Ries currently serves as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, starting in November 2024. Previously, Ben held the position of Engineering Manager of Managers at Stripe, where responsibilities included directing a geo-distributed organization managing core database operations and executing major version upgrades. As Engineering Manager at Stripe, Ben achieved significant infrastructure cost savings and developed the company's first database control plane. Ben also served as Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, leading efforts in building microservices for AWS WAF and shipping machine learning-powered solutions. Prior entrepreneurial experience includes founding Roby, a B2B SaaS and AI platform, and notable achievements at Coursera include multiple promotions and recognition from the CEO. Ben holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Southern California.
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