Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is currently the Vice President of Product at Fly.io, a developer-focused cloud platform. He has a rich background in software engineering, particularly specializing in databases and distributed systems. Johnson's career includes significant roles such as:

• Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io (April 2022 - Present): He focuses on building tools related to Litestream and SQLite for Fly.io's globally distributed hosting network.
• Freelance Go Developer at Middlemost Systems (August 2014 - May 2022): He developed data-intensive applications and specialized in storage systems and databases.
• Senior Software Engineer at Shopify (January 2013 - August 2014): He worked on deploying an open-source behavioral analytics database called SkyDB.

Johnson is also known for creating BoltDB, an embedded key/value database for Go, and has made notable contributions to the Go community. His expertise in databases has led him to frequently appear on podcasts discussing database technologies and decision-making processes in software development.123

He is based in Littleton, Colorado, and has a strong presence on platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub, where he shares insights into his work and projects.134