Benjamin Pickard
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Pickard is a software engineer focused on cloud-native networking, bringing five years of industry experience and a BS in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte. At Red Hat he contributes to OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift networking—improving IPv6 support, dependency management, and cluster debugging tooling—while maintaining projects for the Kubernetes Network Plumbing WG. He blends hands-on backend development with SRE-oriented runbook creation and release engineering, having led workshops and live demos on pod creation workflows. Based in Wake Forest, NC, he pairs systems-level expertise with practical downstream performance enhancements and a knack for silencing noisy production issues, making him effective at both development and incident-driven troubleshooting.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
sdn9
kubernetes-networking9
cni9
plug8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 8 commits, 21 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily involve enhancing the OVN Kubernetes networking platform, with a focus on improving IPv6 support and updating Kubernetes dependencies. Their work includes silencing error logs related to IPv6, bumping Kubernetes vendored libraries to v1.25.0, and updating dependencies. Furthermore, they changed the resource lock type to lease and refactored the retry mechanism, demonstrating their engagement with Kubernetes internal components.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
bpickard22/cluster-network-operator
May 2021 - Apr 2025
Create and manage cluster networking configuration
Contributions:66 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years 11 months
ospfnetworkingbgpsdnkubernetes
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