Ben Cressey
Security Engineer at Stealth Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBen Cressey is a seasoned security and Linux systems engineer with 17 years of experience building and hardening large-scale infrastructure, most recently joining a stealth startup after a long tenure at Amazon. He brings deep hands-on expertise in OS-level engineering and DevOps, demonstrated by contributions to Bottlerocket OS where he improved build systems, packaging, and release automation for a container-focused operating system. Based in Seattle, he combines practical desktop and server operations experience from earlier roles with large-scale Linux systems design at Amazon. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge build tooling, kernel and glibc dependency management, and service orchestration. Outside of core duties he’s quietly focused on reproducible builds and infrastructure automation that reduce release friction—skills that often surface in higher reliability and faster delivery.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
sh10
systemd10
script10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
build-automation10
glibc9
package-management9
rust9
selinux8
linux-kernel8
percona6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2153 reviews, 806 commits, 361 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focus on improving and integrating the build system for the Bottlerocket OS. The contributions involve modifying build scripts to support building different packages, adding settings for the SDK, and updating dependencies like kernel, glibc, and grub. Furthermore, the user made changes to the file system, network, and various service units as part of the packaging and release process.
operating-systemcontainerslinuxrust
salty-horse/garglk
Oct 2008 - Jun 2012
Contributions:512 commits in 3 years 8 months
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