Ben Abrams
Founder, Managing Director CEO at Ben Abrams Assets and Holdings (BAAH)
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Abrams is a seasoned systems engineer and DevOps leader with 13+ years designing, deploying, and securing large-scale infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments from Oregon. He has built teams and security programs from the ground up at companies like Doximity and HPE, blending hands-on automation (Chef, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes) with incident response, observability, and vendor negotiations that saved substantial costs. A persistent toolsmith and release engineer, Ben frequently contributes to well-known open-source Chef cookbooks (nginx, aws, java, redisio, sensu), improving cross-platform compatibility and release pipelines. His background spans Linux and Windows administration, digital forensics, backup and recovery, and network architecture, giving him a rare full-stack operational perspective. Colleagues rely on him for mentorship, “technical therapy,” and pragmatic security enablement that lets teams move faster without sacrificing safety. Outside of corporate roles he runs independent consulting work, maintaining deep practical experience with field deployments and remote support.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Technology, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Computer and Information Technology, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Dixie State University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (27)
cookbook10
testing10
terraform10
java10
ruby10
aws-sdk10
javas10
terraformer10
release-management10
automation10
chef-client10
aws10
version-control10
management10
chef-solo10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sensu/sensu-chef
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Sensu Chef cookbook.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 50 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on preparing and executing releases of the Sensu Chef cookbook, indicated by the frequent "prep for release" commits. These commits involved updating the cookbook's version number in the `metadata.rb` file, ensuring the latest version was tagged. Additionally, the user made changes to support new functionality, added new attributes to the LWRP, and fixed issues related to service restarts.
cookbookvagrantwindowschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
sous-chefs/java
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Development repository for the java cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the Java cookbook, making crucial updates to URLs for Java 8, and ensuring its convergence in various environments. They also implemented improvements to the build system and release processes by updating metadata and fixing spec failures on Windows. Additionally, the user made changes related to certificate management within the cookbook, including addressing alias matching and case sensitivity.
javachef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
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