Ben Vesel
Principal Software Engineer Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
Davison, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBen Vesel is a Principal Software Engineer and Site Reliability lead with a decade of experience architecting and operating managed OpenShift services, currently leading the Azure Red Hat OpenShift team at Red Hat. He combines hands-on back-end and DevOps work—shown by contributions to Azure/ARO-RP like installer bugfixes, permission hardening, and node readiness checks—with strategic ownership of feature lifecycles, tech debt, and scaling architecture. His background spans enterprise cloud and hybrid deployments at Ford and Red Hat, with deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, automation, and operationalizing zero-egress security for customer clusters. A crypto enthusiast with an MS in Software Engineering, he brings a pragmatic SRE mindset to balancing reliability, scalability, and delivery across complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (9)
go10
kubernetes-pods9
devops9
kubernetes9
azure8
cicd8
python8
microsoft-azure8
network-security6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/ARO-RP
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1120 reviews, 292 commits, 513 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP repository by implementing a condition to check for the minimum number of ready worker nodes. They also updated error handling guidelines in a Python-based Az CLI module and reconciled downstream changes. Furthermore, the user integrated changes from the upstream repository into the downstream codebase. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to podman migration, ensured the appropriate level of permissions, and resolved a bugfix in the installer.
azureopenshiftredhat
bennerv/ARO-RP
Nov 2020 - Feb 2026
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Contributions:870 pushes, 409 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 4 months
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