My name is Ben Clark. I was CTO of Casper Sleep from 2019 to 2021. I was at Wayfair from 2011 to 2019, the last 5 years as Chief Architect.
Techie links--public speaking, press, code, writing, etc.:
A 2021 interview with me, from my time at Casper, on the Better Product podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/staying-curious-and-examining-the-failures-of-d2c/id1451869239?i=1000536850316
A 2021 video interview with me by Cesar Brea of Bain, https://www.bain.com/insights/using-technology-to-help-the-world-sleep-better-video/.
An interview with Jack Vaughn of TechTarget/SearchDataManagement: https://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Wayfair-charts-open-source-components-course-to-growth.
I spoke at Data@Scale Boston 2018. The talk is called Scaling Data Plumbing at Wayfair. Scroll down a bit on the ‘recap and videos’ page, to find it: https://code.fb.com/core-data/data-scale-boston/
An interview with Mary Pratt of TechTarget/SearchCIO, from January 2018: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/feature/Wayfairs-chief-architect-talks-AI-driven-innovation-impactful-IT
A 20-minute talk at Facebook's Data@Scale Boston conference, November, 2014, called "Scaling Redis and Memcached at Wayfair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLjryfUZPXU
The opening talk, "Scaling performance monitoring at Wayfair", on a double bill with Baron Schwartz, who's talk is called "Sampling is Hard": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqc1BpgCac&list=PLjicVljLpMZXu4MxCK-0fnT2r7qBIIKOE. All this is at the Boston Web Performance meetup, June 10th, 2015
Tech blogging at Wayfair's tech blog, where I started doing some writing in 2012, was editor from 2014 to 2017, and then hired an awesome former tech journalist to do the editing on my and Wayfair’s behalf, until I left the company in 2019. The blog has been replatformed so my posts are hard to find, but it still exists at https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/tech-blog
Twitter: @clarkjacker
Github: https://github.com/clarkjacker
An interview with Jeff Bertolucci of Information Week, on a data science project we did at Wayfair in 2012: http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/online-retailer-uses-dna-research-to-connect-with-customers/d/d-id/1106475?
There is a cool interview with me in chapter 14 (“Conversations with Practitioners”) of Cesar Brea’s Marketing and Sales Analytics, Pearson, Financial Times Press, 2014, http://amzn.to/1MyTxV2.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkjacker
A Boston "Analytics Week" panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXg3T-4RXs4 (from 35:50)
Older tech blogging, from when I was at a startup called StyleFeeder, at http://seventhfloor.whirlycott.com/category/cloud-computing/.
I can be reached at ben at daltonclark dot com.
This is also my family blog, where I talk up the various activities of my wife, Abbe Dalton Clark. She does software and IT project management and data processing.
I have some other interests. I speak French and know some Persian and Arabic. A few years ago I translated 5 articles in Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: http://amzn.to/1wc1Xcb. I also translated Louis Massignon's Essay on the Origins of the Technical Language of Islamic Mysticism from the French. It's out of print now, but a used copy becomes available on Amazon from time to time. I have a couple of author's copies, so you can write me if you're interested.