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 (78)
bigip10
rest-client10
f510
command-palette10
editor10
rpm10
schema-validation10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
parse10
ucs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
f5devcentral/vscode-f5-flipper
Feb 2023 - Feb 2026
Exploring Citrix/NetScaler configs
Contributions:2 releases, 42 PRs, 88 pushes in 3 years
citrixnetscaler
f5devcentral/vscode-f5
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Let the F5 VSCode extension supercharge your workflows with schema validation, rest client, fast templates, and so much more!!!
Contributions:20 releases, 360 commits, 125 PRs in 2 years 10 months
rest-clientschema-validationvscode-extensionmicrosoft-extension-marketplacevscode
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