Ben Novak
Solutions Engineer at F5 Networks
Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Novak is a Solutions Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and deploying F5 application delivery solutions and broad Cisco networking architectures for large-scale private and public sector customers. He combines deep expertise in BIG-IP LTM/GTM with Nexus implementations, ASA firewalls, and data center considerations like fiber channel, power and cooling, enabling pragmatic end-to-end designs. At F5 he moved from field consulting into solutions design, routinely integrating load balancers with Exchange, Citrix, Lync and Oracle in high‑availability environments. Known for thinking outside the box, he pursues new certifications (ASM/APM) and automation-friendly approaches hinted at in his playful GitHub bio. Based in Brentwood, TN, he balances practical field experience with systems-level planning and a mindset oriented toward durable, operational solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Science, Computer Networking Systems, Associates of Science, Computer Networking Systems at Itt-Tech Nashville
Github Skills (97)
visual-studio10
rest-client10
f510
command-palette10
extractor10
validation10
editor10
rest10
schema-validation10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
f5devcentral/vscode-nim
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
vscode extension for interacting with NGINX Instance Manager
Contributions:5 releases, 26 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
nginxvscodevscode-extension
f5devcentral/f5-corkscrew
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
TMOS parser and application extractor
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 129 commits in 1 year 10 months
tmoscorkscrewrpmapplication-extractionconf
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