Ben Ebsworth
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Ebsworth is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently supporting Atlassian’s micros platform on AWS. He began in electrical engineering and has evolved into a DevOps/SRE specialist who designs resilient Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy and CI/CD ecosystems for large enterprises, including what was likely Australia’s first production Istio deployment. Ben has led platform teams, delivered developer enablement tooling (Spinnaker, Terraform, bespoke versioning), and produced observable, secure microservice stacks for a major bank and Telstra. An active contributor to the Minikube project, he improved integration tests for the Docker registry addon—demonstrating a focus on reliability and test automation at the infrastructure level. Based in Melbourne, he combines hardware-rooted rigor with pragmatic software craftsmanship to bridge developer experience, security and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Engineering Applied Mathematics Physics Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Engineering Applied Mathematics Physics Electrical Engineering at Monash University
English
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
testing10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
minikube10
integration-testing10
container9
dockers9
cluster-computing9
docker9
clustering9
nginx6
cnc6
logfile-analysis6
dictionary6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/minikube
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Run Kubernetes locally
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Ben's commits focused on adding and improving integration tests for the "registry" addon within the Minikube project. They implemented tests to verify external and internal access to the Docker registry, validating connectivity through the registry-proxy. The user also refactored the tests to use `retryablehttp` for more reliable access checks and fixed linting issues. These changes contribute to the overall quality and reliability of the Minikube project.
kubernetesminikubeclustercontainersgo
shortedapp/shorted
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
shorted.com.au webapp
Contributions:324 commits, 110 PRs, 257 pushes in 4 years 7 months
gatsbyreactchartingserverlessdocker
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