Ben Meier

@ben.bsky.meierhost.com

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Principal Software Engineer - distributed systems, go, rust; he/him; Dad; Bristol 🇬🇧, 🇿🇦; Currently enterprise engineering; previously Platform Engineer, VMM, and FaaS data planes. Blog: https://bensblog.meierhost.com

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