Benjamin Runnels
Senior DevOps Engineer at UBS
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Runnels is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and automating infrastructure across financial and enterprise environments. Currently at UBS, he combines a full-stack Java background with deep systems and networking expertise developed at AIG, Citigroup, and Siemens to deliver reliable, auditable platform automation. He has a proven track record in data center network automation and infrastructure operations, routinely bridging development and operations to streamline deployments and incident response. Benjamin also contributes to embedded open-source projects—adding Windows build support and debug tooling to an esp8266 wifi-serial bridge—highlighting a low-level systems fluency that complements his DevOps work. Based in Denton, Texas, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to large-scale infrastructure challenges and CI/CD pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
c1110
makefile10
esp826610
c1710
sys10
embedded10
build-system9
wifi9
serial-communication9
sdk8
code-formatting6
jhipster6
php6
openebs6
parent-child6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jeelabs/esp-link
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
esp8266 wifi-serial bridge, outbound TCP, and arduino/AVR/LPC/NXP programmer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:11 PRs, 28 comments, 1 issue in 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's commits primarily involve modifications and additions to a C-based project related to an ESP8266 wifi-serial bridge. The user added support for Windows builds, modified Makefiles and included files. Further contributions include the addition of various debug functions. The code changes and commit messages suggest a focus on system-level programming and build environment configuration for an embedded system.
serialoutboundavrbridgeesp8266
brunnels/talos-cluster
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
My home Kubernetes (talos) cluster managed by GitOps (Flux2) and serviced with RenovateBot
Contributions:471 PRs, 2244 pushes, 182 branches in 10 months
fluxgitopshelmk8s-at-homekubernetes
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