# Ben Livengood

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benlivengood

I am a troubleshooter and fixer and futurist.  I enjoy solving technical problems and helping people achieve complex goals.  I like distributed systems, artificial intelligence, formal languages, and security/cryptography.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ The Browser Company
Jan 2025 – Present
Security team encouraging LLMs to behave

### Staff Software Engineer @ Osmind
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ doc.ai
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023

### Production Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California, United States
I was embedded with two teams in the integrity space; a globally distributed counter service used for abuse detection/prevention and a data production system.

### SRE @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California, United States
I supported Photon, Ubiq, and related systems used for the back-end of the core ad business.

### System Engineer, Software Engineer, Application Support @ Banner Health System
Jan 2000 – Jan 2013 | Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
Desktop support, network engineering, system engineering, and some software engineering.


## Education
### BS in CS
University of Alaska Fairbanks


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-livengood

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Last updated: 2026-04-10