Ben Sperr

Software Engineer

Boulder, Colorado

Google Drive

2018 - Present

Tech Lead driving exabyte-scale infrastructure optimization, backend architecture, and massive year-over-year cost reductions for Google Drive

Tech lead for Drive's Cost and Capacity team, reducing the byte footprint by 10+ EiB and driving a consistent 10% YoY reduction in OpEx
Led team developing the middleware for Drive's new intelligent homepage
Developed la ong-term roadmap of Drive's quota abuse loopholes, analyzed impacts to guide focus
Tech lead for Drive's backend effort to implement Pooled Storage, a new model where users in an organization share storage
Worked on shared drive subfolder sharing, one of Drive's top feature requests

myStrength

2014 - 2018

Hired as the first in-house engineer for the myStrength application, a web and mobile app that provides personalized tools and resources for mental wellness

Established the foundation of the new myStrength application, including both backend and frontend
Identified tools and designed architecture to support future scalability; built new RESTful API as part of a smooth transition from a legacy system to modern architecture
Optimized deployment moving from a manual process with downtime to an automated, downtime-free Docker-based
Led the development of the frontend of a new admin panel

Gorilla Logic

2012 - 2014

Worked on MonkeyTalk, an open source, automated testing platform for mobile applications, and CloudMonkey, a platform that orchestrates MonkeyTalk tests simultaneously across many mobile devices

Implemented administrative web front-ends for CloudMonkey using HTML5, jQuery and a RESTful backend
Integrated physical devices into CloudMonkey, automating the validation, installation and launching of apps on iOS and Android
Designed and implemented device remote control system allowing users to manually interact with real devices over the web

University of Colorado at Boulder

2008-2012

BS in Computer Science

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering minors