Benjamin Elder
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Elder is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, and test automation, currently based in Sunnyvale, CA. He is a long-standing Kubernetes maintainer—creator of kind, SIG Testing tech lead, and a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee—who focuses on making Kubernetes testing and release pipelines reliable at scale. At Google he has advanced build, release, and test infra for Kubernetes, contributing practical fixes across DIND/IPv6 support, Bazel caching, Prow CI, and package publishing that keep large distributed systems shipshape. Ben combines deep DevOps instincts with backend engineering chops, often refactoring legacy scripts and test suites to reduce flakiness and simplify release automation. Notably, his contributions trace back to a Google Summer of Code project replacing kube-proxy userspace with an iptables backend, showing a long-term commitment to core Kubernetes internals.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
k3s10
package-management10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
script10
go10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1019 reviews, 278 commits, 283 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Kubernetes codebase by modifying build scripts and test configurations. Their work included removing legacy build configurations and updating scripts related to image building and test execution. They also refactored code related to the guestbook application within the test suite, which involved changes to Go code. Furthermore, the user improved the reliability of tests by adjusting timeout values.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
kubernetes/test-infra
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1014 reviews, 1729 commits, 1457 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project. They primarily focused on improving the Docker-in-Docker (DIND) setup within the test environment, adding IPv6 support and ensuring proper daemon configuration. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to Bazel caching, file permissions, and updated kind-conformance-image-e2e.sh and other test configurations. The user also worked on improving the Prow CI system and related tooling.
test-infrastructuretestinginfrastructurek8s-sig-testingkubernetes
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