Benamar Mekhissi
Principal Engineer at IBM
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenamar Mekhissi is a Principal Engineer based in Cary, North Carolina, with a multi-decade track record designing and delivering infrastructure and platform software across enterprise and cloud vendors. He currently leads engineering at IBM after senior principal roles at Red Hat and HPE SimpliVity, with earlier stints at Akamai and SeaChange reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems and platform reliability. Known for bridging hands-on technical leadership with architecture-level thinking, he has repeatedly led teams through complex platform transitions and productizations. His background includes cofounding a startup and long tenures that suggest strong institutional knowledge and mentorship capabilities. Though his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his career shows sustained impact in high-scale networking and virtualization domains. He holds an MSc from Boston University and brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to engineering challenges.
5 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Boston University
Github Skills (23)
cephfs10
ceph10
csi-driver10
csi10
kubernetes9
gitops6
devops6
helm6
pipeline6
docker6
odf6
cicd6
continuous-delivery5
cd5
continuous-deployment5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BenamarMk/ocm-ramen-samples
Apr 2021 - Apr 2026
OCM Stateful application samples, including Ramen resources
Contributions:143 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years
ramenstatefulocm
BenamarMk/ramen
Mar 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 26 PRs, 545 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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