Benjamin Sherman
Co-Founder, Chief Cloud Architect at Cloudsmash, Inc.
Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sherman is a seasoned cloud architect and co-founder with 18 years of professional experience and a 25-year history building software and infrastructure from sysadmin roots to modern cloud-native systems. He currently leads Cloudsmash as Chief Cloud Architect after Senior SRE roles at Atlassian and FireEye, bringing deep SRE, Terraform, Kubernetes and multi-language tooling experience (Go, Python, Rust). Benjamin has led teams shipping orchestration and deployment systems at scale, integrating IoT and distributed platforms, and maintains notable system projects like ublue-os and ucore. He pairs hands-on engineering with product and operational leadership—having moved from managing core network services and professional services to architecting hosted/cloud solutions. Based in Iowa, he combines startup grit with enterprise reliability practices and a track record of rescuing and refactoring failing projects into production-ready platforms.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Iowa
Github Skills (187)
devsecops10
python10
bash10
wireguard10
ubuntu10
security10
python-client10
automation10
coreos10
home-assistant10
k8s10
collaboration10
operating-system10
mesh10
client-library10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bsherman/bos
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Customized OS images based on Universal Blue
Contributions:25 PRs, 149 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
bsherman/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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