Benjamin Kaplan
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kaplan is a software engineer with six years of professional experience based in Seattle, currently at Google after earlier engineering roles and internships at Microsoft. He focuses on back-end and cloud-native tooling, contributing notably to the widely used Skaffold project by implementing Cloud Run deployers, status monitoring, cleanup, and port-forwarding for Services and Jobs. Comfortable working across DevOps and backend domains, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic features and bug fixes that improve developer workflows for Kubernetes and Cloud Run. A Case Western Reserve University computer science graduate, he blends large-company product experience with hands-on open-source contributions that surface in production-facing deployment tooling.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ManualBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (12)
google-cloud-run10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
developer-tools10
kubernetes-pods10
gcp10
dockers9
testing9
apidoc9
api9
docker9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin made significant contributions to the Cloud Run deployment functionality within the Skaffold project. Their work focused on implementing initial Cloud Run deployers, including status monitoring and cleanup procedures. They also addressed project ID handling, label rewriting for Skaffold, and port forwarding for Cloud Run Services and Jobs. The user's contributions spanned across multiple code changes, including new features and bug fixes, and covered both Service and Job deployments.
containershelmrepeatabledockerdeveloper-tools
bskaplan/skaffold
Mar 2022 - Sep 2024
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Contributions:54 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 5 months
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