Ben Whaley
Principal Engineer at Skool
Manzanita, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Whaley is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of multidisciplinary experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently based in Manzanita, Oregon. He combines hands-on expertise in Go and Python with deep knowledge of IaC, testing, and security—contributing to notable open-source projects like terratest and tflint and improving cloud cleanup and tagging workflows. At Chime he architected Alternat, an open-source NAT solution that helped save the company $6M annually, and has led resilience, upgrade, and load-shedding efforts across large production fleets. A published author and AWS Community Hero, Ben blends engineering leadership, customer-facing product work, and operational rigor while practicing the principle of least surprise.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chime/terraform-aws-alternat
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
High availability implementation of AWS NAT instances.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:24 releases, 53 reviews, 17 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on improving the resilience and compatibility of an AWS NAT instance implementation. They added a health check to verify connectivity, refactored code to be compatible with different Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and added support for multiple CIDR blocks. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the logging levels.
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gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 14 reviews, 11 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure by adding and modifying test files. They updated test cases across multiple AWS services, including EBS, EIP, and EC2. The user refactored code, improved error handling, and created mock tests for specific AWS functionalities, ensuring the stability and reliability of the cloud-nuke tool. Furthermore, the user added a new command line function with inclusion/exclusion for specified regions.
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