Benjamin Blattberg
Senior Software Engineer at Crunchy Data
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Blattberg is a senior software engineer in Austin with 12 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling. He blends a passion for legible code and automation with deep, practical experience operating databases at scale—contributing to the widely used Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes and building cloud-agnostic DB operators and observability tooling at ObjectRocket. Comfortable across Go, Python, and infrastructure-as-code, he has shipped multi-cloud products, customer-facing metrics platforms, and resilient backups and alerting systems. His background in literature and teaching surfaces in clear technical communication and thoughtful API and data-model design. He’s equally at home debugging Postgres restores as he is designing Prometheus/AlertManager pipelines, and he’s surprised to find that data modelling is where he enjoys asking the best questions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Literature, BA, Literature at Bard CollegeImprovisation, Comedy Writing, Improvisation, Comedy Writing at Second CityMaster of Arts (M.A.), English, Master of Arts (M.A.), English at University of ChicagoWeb Development Accelerated Learning Program, Web Development Accelerated Learning Program at MakerSquare
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
backend-as-a-service10
postgresql10
data-service10
data-services10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
high-availability9
admin9
dockers9
cloud-infrastructure9
database-administration9
docker9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CrunchyData/postgres-operator
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Production PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, from high availability Postgres clusters to full-scale database-as-a-service.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:620 reviews, 70 commits, 212 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes. Their work focused on enhancing the operator's functionality, including enabling PostGIS extensions, mounting downward API for container information, and implementing security contexts for data move jobs. They also addressed issues related to data restoration, including fixes for PG14 restore operations and improvements for S3 EKS service authentication. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the operator's internal components and updating dependencies for pgBackRest, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and its integration with various cloud services.
clustersdatabase-as-a-serviceoperatorpostgres-operatorproduction
benjaminjb/postgres-operator
Sep 2021 - Oct 2023
Production PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, from high availability Postgres clusters to full-scale database-as-a-service.
Contributions:6 PRs, 333 pushes, 90 branches in 2 years 1 month
availabilityclustersdatabase-as-a-servicek8s-operatorscale
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