Ben Picolo
Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at CrowdStrike
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Picolo is a senior engineering manager specializing in site reliability and cloud platform engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems at companies from Yelp and Squarespace to AWS and CrowdStrike. He has led launches of new AWS services (including AWS Clean Rooms) and run teams responsible for core infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity across high-growth and security-sensitive environments. A hands-on leader who still contributes to open source, Ben improved Kubernetes' official Python client by hardening kubeconfig and JWT handling to prevent malformed-input vulnerabilities. Based in New York, he combines product-minded execution with strong coaching skills to grow teams that deliver thoughtful, resilient systems. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for translating complex reliability challenges into testable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (6)
kubernetes10
pytest10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s9
lib9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-client/python
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Official Python client library for kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions primarily focused on improving the Kubernetes client library's handling of base64 encoded data within the kubeconfig file format. They addressed padding issues in base64 decoding, added and refined test cases, and included checks for invalid characters and padding lengths in JWT tokens. This work enhances the robustness and security of the library by preventing potential vulnerabilities related to malformed or manipulated kubeconfig files.
pythonclient-librarypython-clientk8skubernetes
bpicolo/adjure
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 18 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 9 months
authenticationfactortwo-factorfactor-authenticationtotp
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