Ben Yanke is a client-focused technology professional with 10 years of experience bridging DevOps engineering and customer-facing roles from Austin, Texas. Currently a Client Partner at Emerson, he pairs technical fluency with stakeholder engagement to deliver reliable solutions and operational improvements. His open-source contributions show hands-on expertise in automation and web reliability—improving Docker builds, CI, and integration testing for glauth and enhancing UX, security (HTTPS redirects), and analytics for the Divinum Officium project. Trained as a chemical engineer at Texas A&M, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to software and operations, often favoring pragmatic tooling and documented developer workflows. Notably, many of his most interesting projects live on his GitLab, reflecting a preference for doing and demonstrating practical DevOps work outside the spotlight.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University
A lightweight LDAP server for development, home use, or CI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:11 releases, 86 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the glauth project. Their contributions include setting up and refining Docker builds, integrating Travis CI for automated testing, and implementing a basic integration test. The user also worked on setting up alpine builds and implementing dumb init for the docker images. These changes streamlined the development workflow and improved the project's build stability.
The Divinum Officium Project: Traditional Roman Missal and Breviary Texts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:41 commits, 20 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the user experience and ensuring the website functions correctly. Their contributions include implementing HTTPS redirects to improve security, adding and fixing redirects for various parts of the site to ensure proper loading, and documenting Docker-based local hosting. Additionally, the user integrated analytics tracking into the site.
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