He has been a developer on the WebSphere eXtreme Scale product for 2 years and has been involved with the XC10 product since its inception. As a developer his area of focus has been disk persistence technology. In addition he served as the product integration architect focusing on helping IBM products leverage WXS and XC10 caching solutions. Ben holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University.