Ben April
CTO at Unit 221B
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen April is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience evolving from a one-room dial-up ISP to leading product and engineering at Maltego. He combines deep networking and security expertise—routing, BGP, and threat research—with hands-on tooling and architecture know-how developed at companies like Trend Micro, Farsight, and DomainTools. Ben is known for building high-performing teams that turn disruptive security research into production-quality products and for pragmatic creativity in operations and automation. Based in Amherst, NH, he geeks out about radio, hardware hacking, and theatre tech, bringing a maker’s mindset to complex infrastructure problems. An often-understated strength is his long history of customer-facing technical leadership, which keeps product decisions grounded in real-world operational needs.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
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English
Github Skills (41)
stateless10
anonymous10
sender10
stash10
secure-communication10
shamir-secret-sharing10
trident10
portal10
trust10
pgp9
end-to-end-encryption9
golang9
cli9
receiver9
credentials9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tridentli/pitchfork
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Golang framework for secure communication platforms.
Contributions:206 commits, 84 PRs, 145 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golangframeworksecurecommunicationpgp
bapril/cfa_635
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 19 days
python-driverpython
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