Benjamin B
Associate Principal Solution Architect (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Specialist)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin B is an Associate Principal Solution Architect and Red Hat Enterprise Linux specialist based in Melbourne with two decades of experience improving customer outcomes through open source software. He blends deep systems and networking roots—spanning Unix administration, C/C++ development and cloud networking at Ericsson—with a decade of focused solution architecture and ecosystem work at Red Hat. Hands-on in cloud-native observability, he has contributed backend and operator-level features to high-profile projects like OpenTelemetry Collector and Jaeger Operator, including implementing gRPC remote sampling and ingress/OpenShift support. Benjamin excels at translating complex platform needs into practical, deployable solutions and improving upgrade and deployment routines across Kubernetes environments. Known for challenging the status quo, he pairs operational pragmatism with a developer’s attention to detail and release governance.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BCSE (Hons), C, C++, IP networking, Unix, VHDL, BCSE (Hons), C, C++, IP networking, Unix, VHDL at Monash University
Spanish
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
ingress10
kubernetes-operator10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
opentelemetry10
grpc10
webhooks9
microservices-application9
yaml9
operator9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger-operator
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
🛑 DEPRECATED! Jaeger v1 Operator for Kubernetes simplifies deploying and running Jaeger on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:508 reviews, 29 commits, 226 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the deployment and operational aspects of the Jaeger Operator for Kubernetes. Their work included refactoring deployment logic using webhooks, modifying Kubernetes manifests, and implementing support for features like image pull secrets. Furthermore, the user made changes to core components like deployment and service to align with platform-specific features and configuration needs. They also worked on the backend code to address configuration issues within the Jaeger Operator.
jaegerkubernetesoperatorjaegertracing
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:552 reviews, 13 commits, 94 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Operator by implementing features related to ingress and OpenShift route support, and configuring the operator for different platforms. They added functionality for managing ingress options, including generating names, reconciling ingress resources, and writing integration tests. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the upgrade routine for Jaeger remote sampling and refactoring of the configuration.
kubernetes-operatoropentelemetry-collectoropentelemetry
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