Summary
Benjamin Connelly is a DevOps consultant and Linux/cloud operations engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and maintaining large-scale production environments. He has led cloud operations and cost-optimization efforts at companies like iSeatz—managing AWS reserved instance pools and driving over $250,000 in annual infrastructure savings—and currently consults at nClouds. Benjamin’s background spans core infrastructure roles from StubHub to Blinkx, giving him deep operational knowledge of monitoring, configuration management (Salt, Ansible, Chef), and service orchestration. He’s skilled in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, PhantomJS/CasperJS) and has implemented self-healing deployments and multi-account AWS architectures. Based in New Orleans, he combines pragmatic on-call production experience with vendor negotiation and tooling selection to reduce risk and cost. An often-overlooked strength is his history in physical systems and facilities automation, bringing a practical perspective to cloud reliability engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California State University-Fullerton