Benge Software LLC

Selected leadership work

Enterprise platform and product leadership.

Six initiatives from my work at Walmart, showing how I defined products, aligned organizations, scaled adoption, managed operating risk, and connected technical investment to business and financial outcomes. Walmart was my employer, not a Benge Software LLC client.

Director-level initiatives

From zero-to-scale delivery to portfolio decisions.

Each case study separates team outcomes from my direct contributions and preserves the qualifications attached to every published measure.

01 · Director-level initiative

Enterprise Streaming Platform

Build and scale an economical enterprise path for streaming workloads while protecting reliability and a constrained engineering organization.

Enterprise platformZero-to-onePlatform economics
  • More than 3,500 workloads over five years
  • Estimated $12M in annual migration-related cost avoidance
  • Approximately $1.56M in annual infrastructure savings
Read the case study
02 · Director-level initiative

Kafka Platform Transformation

Turn a zero-tenant technical proof of concept into a supported enterprise product and remove a licensing constraint on growth.

Product strategyZero-to-onePlatform economics
  • At least 66 production tenants
  • More than 1,900 production deployments
  • Close to $3M in net annual licensing reduction
Read the case study
03 · Director-level initiative

Streaming Portfolio Operating Model

Define product boundaries and decision mechanisms for Spark, Kafka Connect, and Flink while aligning cross-functional ownership.

Portfolio strategyOperating modelProduct strategy
  • Selection guidance across three platform products
  • Design participation expanded from 1 to 45 engineers
  • 94% engagement and 100% intent to stay
Read the case study
04 · Director-level initiative

Kafka versus Azure EventHub

Use observed workload demand and comparative economics to challenge a proposed enterprise platform replacement.

Platform strategyExecutive analysisInvestment decision
  • Approximately one year of utilization analyzed
  • Observed roughly 3× peak-to-trough demand
  • Modeled EventHub direct cost at approximately 5× higher
Read the case study
05 · Enterprise modernization

TIBCO EMS Retirement

Match messaging workloads to Kafka and AMQ, align application teams, and exit an expensive broker contract on a fixed deadline.

Platform modernizationPortfolio migrationCommercial ownership
  • Approximately 1,000 destinations across 15 teams
  • About 90% migrated to Kafka and 10% to AMQ
  • Approximately $1.3M in annual licensing savings
Read the case study
06 · Enterprise modernization

Enterprise Informix Modernization

Automate a risk-controlled database rollout across four portfolios with distinct constraints, validation needs, and recovery models.

Database modernizationAutomationRisk management
  • Approximately 18,000 servers modernized
  • Peak of approximately 2,000 upgrades in one night
  • Informix v9 and v10 retired with zero escalated events
Read the case study