Ben Levin
Global Systems Engineering Lead at Sohonet
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Levin is a Global Systems Engineering Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale Linux server and international network infrastructure for media customers. At Sohonet he hires and mentors systems teams while still leading day-to-day builds—from Puppet-driven Debian/Ubuntu automation and virtualization to Anycast DNS, BGP, and core routing on Juniper and Brocade. His background spans on-site hardware work, optical and colo operations, and pre-sales technical consulting, giving him a rare blend of field-level troubleshooting and strategic architecture. Based in Los Angeles, he brings deep operational knowledge of monitoring and logging stacks (Elastic/Grafana) and multi-cloud VPN integrations, and is known for turning legacy automation into maintainable, modern infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
mac-address10
puppet8
sensu8
reddit7
net-snmp7
vault7
chrome-extension6
firefox-addon6
python6
secrets6
r10k6
cli5
encryption5
go5
ruby5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xraystyle/mac_format
Apr 2016 - Feb 2022
OS X app to quickly look up vendor information and translate MAC address into various vendor formats.
Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 10 months
mac-address
xraystyle/ruby_text_formatting
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
Extension to the String class which provides methods for text formatting and colorization available in a 16 color terminal.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 11 months
text-formatting
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