Benjamin Watkins
DevOps Engineer at Capital on Tap
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Watkins is a DevOps Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience delivering Azure-based, Windows-centric infrastructure, automation, and reliable deployment pipelines. He is currently shaping Capital On Tap's deployment and monitoring landscape, building CI/CD workflows with Octopus and TeamCity, automating deployments, and overseeing observability with Splunk, Site 24x7, LogRhythm, and New Relic. His expertise spans Azure cloud services, Windows PowerShell, IIS, and configuration management using Puppet and Chef, enabling scalable, secure environments. Prior roles include DevOps/Cloud Service Reliability work at WorldRemit and advisory/implementation engagements as a Senior Technical Consultant, alongside earlier operational roles at Oakley and The Nobel School, giving him a well-rounded IT foundation. Based in North Hertfordshire, UK, he brings a practical, security-conscious mindset to infrastructure, automation, and incident response.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
North Hertfordshire CollageComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at North Hertfordshire College
c# .net, vb .net
Stackoverflow
91reputation
21kreached
8answers
5questions
Github Skills (57)
negotiate10
hole-punching10
udp9
kubernetes-deployment9
kubernetes-setup8
dotnet8
chat8
kubeadm8
kubernetes-cluster8
peer-to-peer8
csharp8
kubernetes7
linux7
automation7
net-core7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
7wingfly/P2Pchat
Dec 2015 - Jul 2019
A Peer-to-Peer chat program that demonstrates the implementation of UDP Hole-Punching, using a server with a known End Point to negotiate a direct connection between two clients behind NAT firewalls. Written in c#.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
dotnetp2pchatpointconnection
7wingfly/autok8s
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Automate the installation of self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
Contributions:10 PRs, 67 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 1 month
automationhelm-chartskubeadmkuberneteskubernetes-cluster
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