Ben Horkley
Senior Software Engineer at CVS Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Horkley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with five years of professional experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-facing tooling. He has delivered production-grade systems at companies from Google and CVS Health to startups like Hopjump and Superconductive, specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, service mesh observability, and release automation. At solo.io he helped power Gloo Mesh’s web UI backend and at kgateway he contributed full‑stack and DevOps work—adding Lambda request transforms, Helm values, and Istio sidecar support—to a cloud-native API/AI gateway. Comfortable owning both infrastructure and application layers, he’s improved CI/CD, monitoring, and on-call reliability for high-throughput systems (one project supported 40M daily email sends). Trained at MIT in EECS, he combines rigorous systems thinking with practical DevOps experience to move complex projects from prototype to robust production.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
SB & MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SB & MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
env10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
aws10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
api-design9
apim9
cicd9
devops9
go9
api9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 releases, 704 reviews, 141 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed significantly to the cloud-native API gateway, focusing on its functionality, and the underlying infrastructure. Their work involved implementing features for AWS Lambda request transformations, creating Helm values, and enhancing the Istio integration for sidecar support. The user also worked on the documentation, testing, and ensuring a robust deployment and development pipeline.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
solo-io/envoy-gloo
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 releases, 192 reviews, 45 commits in 6 months
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