Ben Hundley is a Principal Customer Solutions Architect with 15 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems and production-ready AWS solutions. Currently at Caylent after leadership roles at Mission Cloud, he bridges pre-sales strategy and hands-on delivery—scoping projects, estimating costs, and guiding teams from POC to production. His background spans building scalable platforms (TimescaleDB-backed billing systems, Kubernetes operators, and an open-source Kubernetes platform) and enterprise automation across multi-cloud and bare-metal environments. A pragmatic engineer who codes in Go and Ruby, he also contributes to open-source tooling like the roo spreadsheet library, improving data sanitization and parsing. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he combines startup CTO experience with deep SRE and cloud architecture chops to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Design / Computer Animation, Design / Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art and Design
Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:39 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the `roo-rb/roo` library, which provides an interface to spreadsheets. Their contributions included reorganizing and refactoring private methods within the `lib/roo/generic_spreadsheet.rb` file, adding features such as sheet iteration and header parsing, and fixing bugs related to the `:headers => true` option. The user also introduced methods for cleaning and sanitizing spreadsheet data and added patches related to skipping blank rows within the spreadsheet.
Contributions:56 commits, 11 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 months
golangkubernetes-clientkubernetes
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Ben Hundley - Principal Customer Solutions Architect at Caylent