Ben Wilkinson
Systems Engineer at SpaceX
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Wilkinson is a Systems Engineer with a decade of experience delivering secure, consistent, and efficient software services across physical infrastructure and cloud environments. Currently at SpaceX in Redmond, he focuses on deployment automation, Infrastructure as Code, continuous deployment, declarative coding, testing, and observability to make complex systems repeatable and auditable. His open-source contributions to Microsoft’s popular Azure Quickstart Templates show hands-on expertise refactoring Bicep templates and improving virtual network and subnet declarations for real-world cloud patterns. With a CS bachelor’s and a master’s in electronic business and information systems, he combines academic grounding with practical, cross-domain engineering that bridges operations, security, and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Electronic Business & Information Systems, Master's degree, Electronic Business & Information Systems at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Edith Cowan University
Github Skills (14)
code-templates10
azure10
apptemplates10
cpp-templates10
microsoft-azure10
html-template10
python-templates10
virtual-network9
bicep9
arm-templates9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
arm8
devops8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on updating and refactoring Bicep templates within the Azure Quickstart Templates repository. Their contributions involved modifying virtual network configurations and subnets across multiple quickstart examples. The user updated the templates to include the subnets as part of the vnet resource and to use resourceId() calls. They also removed duplicate subnet resources and updated 'dateUpdated' metadata.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
brwilkinson/AutomationSchedule
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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