Ben Kristinsson
Lead DevOps Engineer at Care.com
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kristinsson is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native infrastructure for startups and mid-size companies. He has led platform and release engineering efforts—designing CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and migrations from physical servers to AWS—while balancing security and operational reliability. As a co-founder he built a high-throughput, microservice VPN platform that handled tens of terabytes per month and integrated novel payment flows including Bitcoin. Comfortable working remotely across timezones, he has a strong background in sysadmin, security consulting, and automation spanning Jenkins, Docker, ElasticSearch and more. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he combines deep technical craft with product-focused thinking to turn messy legacy estates into stable, testable systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Reykjavik University
English, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (78)
python10
authentication10
security10
esp3210
home-assistant10
mqtt10
push-notifications10
yaml10
home-automation10
platformio10
ldap10
rp204010
webauthn10
openid-connect10
iot10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
benediktkr/infra
Dec 2017 - May 2026
Contributions:409 pushes, 57 branches, 6 comments in 8 years 5 months
benediktkr/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Apr 2026
Contributions:618 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 1 month
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