Ben Jones
Software Engineer at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Jones is a seasoned software engineer with over 13 years at CERN, where he serves as Service Manager for the laboratory’s batch system and oversees reliable, large-scale compute operations. Prior to CERN he spent more than a decade in Unix engineering at Morgan Stanley, rising to Vice President and honing expertise in resilient infrastructure and operations. He combines deep systems-level knowledge with a discipline for service management, ensuring mission-critical workloads run smoothly across heterogeneous environments. With an MSc in Information Systems and an early academic grounding in history, Ben brings both technical rigor and a broad contextual perspective to problem solving. Based in Geneva, he is comfortable navigating high-stakes technical and organizational challenges in research and finance settings.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), History, BA (Hons), History at The University of SheffieldMSc, Information Systems, MSc, Information Systems at University of Brighton
French
Github Skills (18)
spnego10
gssapi10
keytab10
kerberos9
puppet9
htcondor9
go8
golang8
dask-jobqueue7
rabbitmq7
bash4
python4
httpd-server3
apache3
git3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cernops/dask-lxplus
Aug 2022 - Aug 2025
Dask-Jobqueue wrapper for the CERN HTCondor cluster
Contributions:12 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
dask-jobqueuehtcondor
bendylan/htcondor
Feb 2023 - Sep 2025
HTCondor source repository, formerly the Condor Project
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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