Ben Bodenmiller
Software Engineer - Product Owner at Boeing
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolBen Bodenmiller is a seasoned software engineer and product owner with 13 years of experience modernizing DevSecOps and building cloud-native platforms at Boeing, where he leads the Software Factory DevSecOps team for AWS GovCloud and NIST 800-171 compliance. He blends hands-on engineering—running GitLab/Mattermost infrastructure, automating deployments, and contributing to well-known open-source projects like GitLab Omnibus and pip—with product leadership skills in roadmapping, stakeholder engagement, and quality assurance. Ben has driven enterprise-scale transformation that saved millions by introducing GitLab-based DevOps workflows and has a track record of running company-wide hackathons and enabling cross-functional innovation. His work on widely used repos (omnibus-gitlab, mattermost docs, pip) shows a mix of infrastructure hardening, documentation clarity, and practical security improvements. Practical, curious, and productivity-focused, he combines deep tooling knowledge with a knack for turning user needs into operational solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science: Information Systems Major & Business Minor, Bachelor of Science Computer Science: Information Systems Major & Business Minor at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (31)
docker10
configuration-management10
dockers10
mattermost10
chef-client10
gitlab10
pip10
chef-solo10
nginx10
devops10
documentation10
postgresql9
ssl9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Nov 2014 - May 2022
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:120 commits, 15 PRs, 15 comments in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and configuration of the GitLab Omnibus package. Their contributions included configuring nginx for SSL, updating SSL ciphers, setting the number of unicorn workers, configuring database settings, enabling Git LFS, fixing Prometheus upgrade links, and modifying the build scripts. They also addressed issues related to PostgreSQL upgrades, ensuring proper database operations.
new-issuestrackergitlabgitlab-omnibusissue-tracker
mattermost/docs
Oct 2017 - Feb 2022
Mattermost documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 27 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Mattermost documentation repository. Their work focused on improving clarity, fixing typos, and providing more detail to existing documentation. They updated content related to various aspects of Mattermost, including command-line tools, outbound proxies, image proxies, and messaging features. The user also contributed to upgrade notes and added clarifying examples.
mattermost-documentationmattermost
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