Benjamin Sherman
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
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
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Iowa
Github Skills (146)
fedora-coreos10
devsecops10
python10
bash10
wireguard10
security10
overlayfs10
coreos10
k8s10
collaboration10
operating-system10
mesh10
oci-image10
htpc10
vpn10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bsherman/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
macosdefaultssensiblewrench
bsherman/netmaker-traefik
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Sample Traefik Config for Netmaker
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 11 months
traefik
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