Benjamin Fuller
Software Engineer at Broadcom
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Fuller is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems, currently at Broadcom following VMware's acquisition of Pivotal. He has deep practical experience in observability and logging infrastructure—contributing documentation and fixes to Cloud Foundry projects like docs-dev-guide and loggregator-release to improve stability, upgrade paths, and operational clarity. Benjamin blends hands-on DevOps work (certificate, dependency, and pipeline fixes; resource limit and message-size tuning) with clear technical writing that helps teams adopt and operate complex platforms. He holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines and started his career tutoring and interning while honing system-level skills. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic upgrades and maintainability improvements that reduce operational risk. He brings a quiet focus on making distributed systems more resilient and easier for other engineers to run.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (19)
cloud-foundry10
cicd10
automation10
go10
automations10
syslog10
dockers9
docker9
mtls9
logging9
fluentd9
release-management8
yaml8
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/loggregator-release
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Cloud Native Logging
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 35 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the `loggregator-release` repository. Their contributions included fixing certificate issues, preventing pipeline breaks by pinning dependencies, and enhancing upgrade processes by adding pre-start commands. The user also addressed issues related to file handle limits and message size, and upgrading the Go version.
cloud-nativeloggingcff-wg-app-runtime-platform
cloudfoundry/docs-dev-guide
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Documentation for application developers who want to deploy their applications to Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily focus on updating and enhancing the documentation for the Cloud Foundry platform. They made several updates to deployment guides, adding information on log rate limits, graceful shutdown configurations, and scaling applications. Additionally, the user improved documentation on Fluentd configuration and mTLS settings for log management, and provided updated examples for user-provided services. These changes collectively aim to improve the clarity and completeness of the documentation.
cloud-foundry
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