Ben Feely
I'm an engineering leader who has scaled real teams and real platforms, now working at the front edge of how AI changes the way engineering teams build. Discipline over hype.
I've spent 25 years building software, the last decade at Microsoft, where I grew from senior engineer to Principal Group Engineering Manager. What I care about, and what I'm good at, is building product close to the people it serves and leading the cross-functional teams that ship it.
For the past year I've gone hands-on into AI for engineering: multi-agent orchestration, guardrails that catch an agent cutting corners, and the unglamorous plumbing that lets agents do real work safely. I'm the practitioner who's genuinely excited about what AI can do, and also the one asking whether the output is actually correct.
I do that work in the open at empoweringyou.ai. Less talking about AI, more showing it.
Away from work: four kids, my wife, a mountain bike I built from the frame up with its wheels laced by hand, cabinetry and carpentry when I want to make something real, and the trails around Snoqualmie.