Ben Maurer is the tech-lead of the Web Foundation team at Facebook. This team is responsible for managing the performance and reliability of Facebook's user facing infrastructure. Ben works at all layer's of Facebook's stack -- from javascript to the kernel.

Ben joined Facebook in 2010. Prior to Facebook, Ben was the co-founder of reCAPTCHA, a startup which used CAPTCHA security checks to digitize books and newspapers. reCAPTCHA was acquired by Google in 2009. Ben was also an engineer on the Mono project which develops an open source .NET runtime. Ben wrote Mono's XSLT engine and worked on the JIT and C# compiler.