Benjamin Kearns

Benjamin Kearns is a tech leader with a remarkable track record of expertise in full-stack software development, business strategy, team-building, and fostering a healthy work culture. After studying Applied Mathematics at University of California, Davis, Kearns went on to hold senior positions, such as VP of Product (Digital) at Resilience, VP of Engineering at DataStax, VP of Engineering at Figure Eight, VP of Software at Mayfield Robotics, among other notable organizations.

Kearns believes in sourcing the right people, finding the right balance, engaging customers, closing deals, negotiating contracts, presenting to the board, and driving strategic direction while keeping his hands on the product. Kearns' impressive product credits include a home robot powered by embedded systems and cloud computing, a real-time energy storage platform that used machine learning to optimize economic returns, big data marketing optimization suites, numerous transaction-heavy Fortune 500 e-commerce and retail websites, multi-language enterprise mobile apps, etc.

Kearns' professional risk tolerance has afforded him great opportunities to break new ground in exciting and emerging industries while shipping great products at great speed. Kearns has hired, motivated, and led hundreds of multi-geography staff, managers, and directors in his career. Kearns leverages on-trend technologies, lean startup methods, automation toolsets, and shared documentation. Kearns believes with the right amount of infrastructure and the prospect of commercializing their contributions, engineers dig in and innovation flourishes.