Ben Elgar
Trading Reliability Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Elgar is a Trading Reliability Engineer with 11 years' experience building resilient distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on trading systems at Citadel. He previously founded Krucible, a platform that provisioned thousands of on-demand Kubernetes clusters and pioneered a point-in-time cluster snapshot feature that captured running application memory—demonstrating both product and deep systems engineering instincts. At MongoDB and mLab he led efforts around Kubernetes Operators, service brokers, and high-scale websocket logging, consistently improving test efficiency and operational reliability. Comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and customer-facing sales or pilot work, he combines pragmatic engineering with entrepreneurial experience and a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Bristol.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, A Level at Jerudong International SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (169)
procfile10
google-cloud10
tencent10
kubernetes-cluster10
docker-compose10
compose10
azure10
saas10
docker10
viewer10
aws10
minikube10
log-viewer9
elm9
continuous-delivery9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Krucible/node-client
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Node.js Krucible Client
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
node-jsjavascriptnodejs
BenElgar/BenElgar.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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