Ben Hu
Co-Founder, CTO at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hu is a seasoned software leader and founder with nine years of experience building secure, cloud-native and data-intensive systems. As Co-Founder and CTO at Marbury AI and a Senior Software Engineer at Google, he has driven identity, security, and distributed systems work across BigQuery, BigLake, Cloud IAM, and Kubernetes control plane hardening. He combines hands-on systems programming in Go, C++, Java and C# with product delivery across mobile, web and data pipelines from earlier CTO and startup roles. He’s contributed to upstream Kubernetes tooling and GCE integrations, reflecting practical expertise in production-grade orchestration and security. Based in Seattle, Ben pairs enterprise-grade engineering with entrepreneurial grit and an uncommon background spanning public health NGO work and international economics and finance studies.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Information System, Management Information Systems, General, Master of Science in Information System, Management Information Systems, General at University of WashingtonPreparatory, Economics, Preparatory, Economics at Peking UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
etcd10
gcp10
script10
infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
dockers9
docker9
automation-testing9
automation9
go9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 12 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the Kubernetes project by modifying GCE-specific configuration scripts and deployment manifests. They made changes to the startup scripts, including the use of GKE-specific configuration, and updated scripts related to kube-apiserver health checks and kubeconfig generation. The commits also involved modifications to etcd-related configurations, including client listening URLs and TLS cipher suites. These changes focused on improving the integration with Google Cloud and enhancing the security and functionality of the control plane components.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
benhxy/kubernetes
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:75 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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