Benjamin Hindman
Founder at reboot.dev
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hindman is a founder and seasoned distributed-systems engineer with 16+ years building cloud-native infrastructure, best known as the creator of Apache Mesos and a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. He co-founded Mesosphere (D2iQ) after driving Mesos at Twitter and now leads reboot.dev to further simplify developer experiences for cloud-native applications. Benjamin combines low-level systems expertise—demonstrated by POSIX/protobuf fixes and Hadoop port refactors in Mesos—with product and company-building experience across startups. His background includes early engineering stints at Twitter and Google (V8), and an uncommon focus on tooling that smooths release and maintenance workflows for complex distributed projects.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyB.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (13)
distributed-systems10
c-language10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
scripting9
sys9
system-programming9
bash9
system9
script9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mesos
Mar 2012 - Jul 2018
Apache Mesos
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:142 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the development and maintenance of the Apache Mesos project. They implemented a support script for releases, demonstrating an understanding of the project's release process. The user also refactored the Hadoop port, indicating involvement in backend development and knowledge of distributed systems. Additionally, the user fixed POSIX and protobuf compliance issues, showcasing an aptitude for low-level system programming.
apachebig-datacloudmesosjava
libprocess/libprocess
Mar 2011 - May 2013
Contributions:44 commits in 2 years 3 months
cppprogramming-modelmessage-passingactormessage
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