Ben is founder and CEO of Xeotek, a Big Data & Analytics software startup based in Frankfurt. He is a certified software architect and expert in data streaming technologies (Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams), Kubernetes, distributed and reactive system architectures, and microservices. In over 10 years as an self-employed consultant, he has implemented a wide variety of data-driven projects. In 2017, he founded Xeotek. Xeotek develops the world's first low-code platform for developing and running data streaming applications.