Ben Chalmers
Ben Chalmers
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With twenty years of software development experience, and leadership roles at both enterprise and B2C companies, Ben has driven engineering and hiring process improvement, corporate restructuring, and lean / agile transformation. Ben was Director of Client Engineering at ExpressVPN and Kape, overseeing multiple teams of engineers, leading a management team and an engineering tribe and had responsibility for the development and release of a suite of twenty customer facing client applications used by millions of consumer customers worldwide.
With twenty years of software development experience, and leadership roles at both enterprise and B2C companies, Ben has driven engineering and hiring process improvement, corporate restructuring, and lean / agile transformation. Ben was Director of Client Engineering at ExpressVPN and Kape, overseeing multiple teams of engineers, leading a management team and an engineering tribe and had responsibility for the development and release of a suite of twenty customer facing client applications used by millions of consumer customers worldwide.
Indicative Experience
Engineer at Citrix, Progress Software, Solarflare, Cambridge Neurodynamics and FutureTV working on a range of products including Digital Television Set Top Boxes and Video Servers, Automatic Numberplate Recognition, VIdeo and Audio Capture and Storage, Image Analysis, Device Drivers for Linux and Windows, TCP/IP Stacks, Complex Event Processing Software, Trading Frameworks and Hypervisors
Engineering Leader at ExpressVPN/Kape (B2C security companies) and Citrix (Enterprise B2B). Experience in office, remote and hybrid leadership styles, working with local and globally distributed teams.
Led Citrix UK Lean Innovation Programme, including training and mentoring software engineers, data engineers and designers in lean startup techniques, leading to the funding development of unique wellness features for Citrix products.
Driver of Agile transformation at Citrix, training executives, managers and engineers in agile techniques and SAFe. Member of the Citrix Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) overseeing the operation of SAFe within Citrix.
Designed and led significant improvement in ExpressVPN hiring of engineers and engineering management.
Specific Expertise
Software Engineering Management
Remote / Global Management
Process Development
Agile Methodologies
Lean Methodologies
Change Management
Organisational Structure
Recruitment
Innovation
Coaching and Mentoring
Training
Software Engineering
Systems
Cloud Applications
Desktop Applications
Hypervisors
Embedded
Device Drivers
Windows / Linux
Networking
Video
Event Processing
Career Highlights
2021-2022 Director of Client Application, Express VPN
2019-2021 Engineering Manager, Citrix : Manager of Core Hypervisor & Open Source teams
2010-2019 Staff Software Engineer, Citrix : XenServer Hypervisor Division
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