No. 01Portfolio
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Ben Hankins.

Customer-facing engineer by career. Product builder by practice. I turn complex requirements into software that ships.

7+ years across solutions engineering, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack product development, with production software to show for it.

Portrait of Ben Hankins, solutions engineer and software builder, outdoors in New Orleans
Fig. 01 · Specimen
Ben Hankins, building from New Orleans
$13M
Pipeline Supported
12
Named Accounts
80%
Faster Deploys
Trusted on
engagements with
AT&TBoeingCencoraHoneywellJuniper NetworksKrogerNBCUniversalNorfolk SouthernPepsiCoCenterPoint EnergyVerizonHertz
No. 02Selected work

Selected systems, built end to end.

Detailed case studies up front. Client work and active builds follow at the level of detail they need.

FIG. 02.1 · WORK
Founder · product, architecture, and UXLive beta · redesign underway

Greenlit

Industry-aware resume coaching that shows job seekers what is weakening their application, and what to improve next.

Free industry-aware scanDeterministic scoring with grounded coaching10 ATS-safe resume templates
FIG. 02.2 · WORK
Product architecture · AI orchestrationPublic preview · release candidate

Business Plan Writer

A review-gated system that turns structured intake and evidence into a funding-focused business plan.

Five-stage core pipelineParallel market and finance analysisBounded critic revision and release gates
FIG. 02.3 · WORK
Author · systems and information architectureLive · continuously maintained

Living Playbooks

A living education system that turns field experience into searchable paths, diagrams, templates, and decision tools.

111 Markdown resources13 polished diagramsDedicated SE and SA learning tracks

The connected playbooks

Solutions Playbook · AI Engineering Studio · Implementation Studio · DevOps Studio

Also in the workshop

Smaller builds, shown at their actual stage.

  • ClipBoardOperations platforms
    Private · polishing
  • FarmFinderData products
    National data pipeline · in development
  • TreehouseMobile products
    In development
No. 03Experience

From customer room to production.

A career connecting technical discovery, solution design, cloud infrastructure, and the work of actually shipping.

Throughline

Find the real problem, design the system for it, and stay until it's actually running.

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  1. Sproutflow Studio

    Founder & Solutions Engineer

    Sep 2025–Present

    Run client engagements end-to-end from technical discovery through production deployment. Build AI systems and automation for clients and internal operations. Delivered custom software across healthcare, e-commerce, and service verticals.

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  2. Prove AI

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Jan 2025–Sep 2025

    Drove SOC 2 Type II from a 34% Vanta baseline to a passed audit in six months, standing up company-wide least-privilege IAM and repository security rules where there had been none. Introduced automated CI/CD where deployments had been manual, cutting deploy time ~80%, and kept production stable across 4 Kubernetes clusters with a single incident in nine months.

  3. IBM - Client Engineering

    Client Technical Specialist -> Cloud Engineer -> Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    2019–2024
    1. 1. Client Technical Specialist · 2019–2021
    2. 2. Cloud Engineer · 2021–2023
    3. 3. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · 2023–2024

    Led technical discovery, solution design, and demo delivery across enterprise accounts including AT&T, Boeing, Cencora, and Norfolk Southern. For CenterPoint Energy's $10.1M SAP RISE engagement, remained embedded to expand from 2 existing environments to 52 total with Terraform. Built customer-facing MVPs and multicloud proofs of concept across React, OpenShift, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.

  4. Kortivity

    Front End Developer

    Jan 2019–Jun 2019

    Designed, built, and maintained a Vue-based Chrome extension that let recruiters pull candidate profiles and contact details, directly supporting the company's core recruiting workflow. The stepping stone into enterprise engineering.

No. 04Contact

Let's build something.

Open to hands-on Solutions Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Implementation Engineer, and selective Full Stack Engineer roles. Also available for consulting through Sproutflow Studio.