Ben Howell
Senior DevOps Engineer at BTS-IT, Inc.
Cicero, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Howell is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and modernizing cloud infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments. He has led migrations and infrastructure automation for payment and kiosk systems, managed complex backend deployments, and maintained enterprise services from Active Directory to VMware and backup systems. His background includes roles from Sr. Systems Engineer at CityBase to Sr. CloudOps Engineer at Euna Solutions and now Senior DevOps Engineer at BTS-IT, showing consistent progression into higher-impact cloud and operations work. Prior military experience as a Cryptography Technician informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and security in production systems. Based in Cicero, Illinois, he pairs a curiosity for new technology with a track record of turning legacy hosts into automated, cloud-native services.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (100)
ext410
vscode10
ide10
video-quality10
twitter9
youtube9
ai9
x9
python9
docker-container9
backend9
userscripts9
pytorch9
stable-diffusion9
privacy9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HowellBP/ext4-on-macos-using-docker
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Create a raw ext4 filesystem in a Docker container running on Mac OS
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 3 months
docker-containerext4filesystemmacos
HowellBP/jruby-slim
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Based on docker-jruby using openjdk:8-slim
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
dockerjruby
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