Ben Kero
DevOps Engineer at NVIDIA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kero is a seasoned DevOps and infrastructure engineer with 26 years of experience building and operating CI/CD, cloud, and release systems for organizations from open-source projects to NVIDIA. Based in Portland, he has led infrastructure at Brave, streamlined releases for the Brave browser, and served as Staff Infrastructure Engineer at OctoML, working across Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Packer, Jenkins, and major CDNs and cloud providers. A long-time contributor to projects like voxpupuli/beaker and Brave’s build tooling, he blends deep automation and QA/test engineering skills with hands-on release management. Known for reducing duplication and improving reliability in complex distributed systems, he brings pragmatic engineering and a history of upstream collaboration from Red Hat and Mozilla to modern AI and cloud platforms.
26 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (16)
automation10
puppeteer10
release-management10
automations10
acceptance-testing10
devops10
puppet10
testing10
ruby9
linux9
browser8
cicd8
documentation7
git7
macos3
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-browser
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the Brave browser project. Their contributions included adding flags for gclient cache directories, modifying build configurations, and adding the '--with_tags' flag to gclient sync for more reliable builds. Additionally, they updated the documentation for installing the browser on various Linux distributions, streamlining instructions and adding the brave-keyring package.
firefoxnext-generationbrowserwindowselectron
voxpupuli/beaker
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 28 days
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions primarily involve enhancing the testing capabilities of the 'beaker' project, focused on Puppet acceptance testing. They added new tests to verify the retrieval of EPEL repository URLs for various operating system versions (el-7, el-6). The user also introduced a preset for EPEL 7 packages and modified existing code to support EPEL 7 in the `get_el_info` and `el_install` functions. Furthermore, they corrected test assertions to match the error messages generated by the updated code.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
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