Benjamin Muschko
Independent Consultant And Trainer at Automated Ascent LLC
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Muschko is an independent consultant, trainer, and software engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience specializing in cloud-native application development, container solutions, DevSecOps, and CI/CD. He has authored multiple O'Reilly study guides and a widely used Gradle book, contributed production-grade Gradle and Docker plugins, and served as a Principal Engineer at Gradle where his work impacted millions of users. Benjamin designs and delivers technical training and interactive labs for thousands of practitioners, and maintains practical Kubernetes exam prep repos that automate cluster setup and troubleshooting. Based in Denver, he blends deep build-system and automation expertise with real-world operational experience—often surfacing subtle issues like preserving symbolic links in packaged artifacts or automating etcd backups—to help organizations reliably move to containerized, secure delivery pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Hochschule Fulda
German, English
Stackoverflow
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211answers
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tomcat
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maven
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java
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character-encoding
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gradle
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console
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Github Skills (58)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
javascript10
android-gradle-plugin10
docker10
console10
groovy10
testing10
packaging10
certification10
bash10
kubeadm10
kubectl10
deb10
etcd10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bmuschko/gradle-tomcat-plugin
Nov 2010 - Sep 2021
Gradle plugin supporting deployment of your web application to an embedded Tomcat web container
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 268 commits, 20 PRs in 10 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily involved developing and maintaining a Gradle plugin for deploying web applications to an embedded Tomcat web container. They implemented features such as the configuration of HTTPS, the creation of SSL certificates, and setting up the AJP connector. The commits involved code changes that modified the plugin's core functionalities and added enhancements to improve its overall usability.
gradlejooqdeploymentweb-applicationmicronaut
bmuschko/gradle-docker-plugin
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Gradle plugin for managing Docker images and containers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:84 reviews, 1175 commits, 308 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin appears to be focused on developing a Gradle plugin for managing Docker images and containers. They implemented several tasks for building, pulling, pushing and removing Docker images, along with tasks for interacting with containers (creating, starting, stopping, etc.). Their work extends to supporting authentication and building of Docker images, which reflects the DevOps aspect of their contributions. The user's contributions show a comprehensive involvement in the Docker plugin's API.
containersgradledockerdocker-imagesgradle-plugin
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