Ben Wilson
Software Engineer at Turnkey
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Wilson is a software engineer with five years of focused experience building and operating blockchain-native infrastructure, currently contributing at Turnkey from Saint Petersburg, Florida. He brings a DevOps/SRE background across crypto and web-scale companies—work at Optimism and OP Labs highlights hands-on experience deploying Ethereum scaling components, implementing JSON-RPC proxies, and instrumenting systems with Prometheus and Grafana. Ben has a history of containerizing and automating services (Docker Compose, shell/Lua tweaks) and scaling IPFS-based and enterprise infrastructure, blending backend and operational expertise. He’s comfortable bridging developer needs and production reliability, having supported developer communities and production sequencers in high-throughput environments. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for pragmatic tooling changes that improve observability and service health without large rewrites, helping teams move fast while staying resilient.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
scripting10
grafana10
dockers10
lua10
script10
go10
prometheus10
sh10
shell10
back-end-development9
json-rpc9
ethereum9
backend9
opt8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:119 reviews, 100 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed to the project by setting up and configuring infrastructure, specifically Prometheus and Grafana for metric collection, and implemented a health check endpoint. They worked on deploying and configuring services using Docker Compose, including the `dashboard-sync` service, modifying shell scripts and Lua configurations. Furthermore, they implemented a JSON RPC proxy, whitelisting JSON RPC methods for the sequencer.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
optimisticben/op-replica
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 121 commits, 80 PRs in 9 months
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