Ben Tasker
Engineering Manager at Chainguard
East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarBen Tasker is an engineering manager specializing in global content delivery and carrier-grade network operations, currently leading efforts at Chainguard. He brings experience deploying, managing and operating infrastructure at planetary scale, with a strong focus on operations, security and rapid prototyping through a DevOps lens. Ben manages a worldwide CDN with nodes from Miami to Timor Leste and has deep expertise in content and service delivery across complex network environments. He built Intelligent DNS routing software that now serves traffic for one of the largest social networks and developed CDN Switcher technology similar to Route53. An active security researcher, he responsibly disclosed cryptographic flaws in HomePlugAV implementations and has his investigative work cited at conferences like DefCon and in university case studies. Based in East Suffolk, he maintains a long-running public technical documentation archive and combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership for fast-moving projects.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (93)
programming-language10
dashboard10
telegraf10
grafana10
scripting-language10
faunadb10
elasticsearch10
xpath10
influxdb10
monitoring10
influx10
kapacitor10
golang10
data-visualization10
chronograf10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
btasker/telegraf
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
agentreportingcollectingagent-servergrafana
btasker/influxcloud_usage_grafana_dashboard
May 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
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