# Ben O'Harra

> Sr. Software Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benoharra

Team leader excited about architecting distributed, cloud native data systems to scale. My goal is to build and promote a culture of collaboration and growth for engineers on my team.

Technical experience in batch and streaming pipelines, user-facing APIs, and full stack web apps. Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and skilled at designing agile delivery for complex projects.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Applied Machine Learning - Core Services

### Technical Lead @ Infinite Athlete
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team focused on real-time streaming data infrastructure to power the FusionFeed API Platform

- Architected company's first public release of the API to bring the Pac-12 Data product to market
- Designed the integration of the company's first machine-learning generated data product to win clients
- Defined OKRs, scoped projects, and delegated work across engineering team
- Conducted interviews for multiple levels, teams, and job functions

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apptio Cloudability
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Working in a distributed system of Go and Java services deployed on EKS, collecting and aggregating customers’ Kubernetes container utilization & cost data for Cloudability Reporting and Container Insights tools.

### Software Engineer II @ Apptio
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bellevue
SDE II on full-stack "Insights and Action Plans" team. Designing v1 applications to search customer data and identify cost saving opportunities, with a full UI to enable customers to visualize, plan, and monitor progress of insight solutions over time

### Java Developer II @ Netspend
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area
Java developer on an agile feature team,  focusing mainly on server-side development for API driven applications. Adding features to largely Spring based applications serving both web and mobile customers. Occasional front-end work with Cordova plugins, React, Javascript/Typescript.

### Software Developer @ General Motors
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
Software development on a legacy Java based web application to service GM dealerships. Mainly java work with an emphasis on RESTful apis and cyber security. Java frameworks used on the job include Spring MVC, AngularJS, JUnit testing and more. Client side development of C++/C# libraries and applications for securing data transfer to backend servers.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22