Ben Livengood
Software Engineer at The Browser Company
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Livengood is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, large-scale systems across Bay Area tech companies. He has deep SRE and infrastructure roots from Google and Facebook, and later applied that expertise to security-conscious roles at doc.ai, Osmind, and now The Browser Company where he focuses on guiding LLM behavior. Comfortable across distributed systems, cryptography, and formal languages, he’s known as a pragmatic troubleshooter who turns complex production problems into reliable outcomes. Ben combines backend rigor with practical product instincts, having supported core ad infrastructure and global integrity services at scale. Based in San Jose, he brings a futurist’s curiosity to work—balancing immediate operational needs with long-term system design and AI safety considerations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, CS, BS, CS at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
charts10
helm10
package-manager10
ambassador6
api6
oauth5
openid5
oauth2-provider5
gateway5
exporter5
authentication5
collector4
forum4
internet3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benlivengood/helm
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
kubernetespackage-manager
doc-ai/ambassador-auth-oidc
Dec 2021 - May 2022
OpenID Connect AuthService for Ambassador API Gateway
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
api-gatewayapiopenidoidcauthentication
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