Benjamin Smith
Engineering Team Lead at Datadog
Lakewood, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin W. Smith is an engineering team lead with 15 years of experience designing systems architecture and delivering web applications, currently guiding a Datadog team building next-generation delivery tooling. He blends hands-on software and infrastructure expertise—evident from senior roles at Datadog and DreamHost and contributions to Ansible Consul templates—with a strong grounding in operations and deployment. Based in Lakewood, Ohio, he has a proven track record of shipping reliable tooling across startups and large-scale environments, mentoring engineers along the way. Notably, his open-source work on Consul Ansible roles shows a pragmatic focus on configurability and production-ready deployments, reflecting an uncommon combination of developer and DevOps instincts.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
AB Tech
English
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Github Skills (19)
configuration-management10
consul10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
jinja29
devops9
templating9
yaml8
github7
version-control6
backup6
distutils6
location6
packaging6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mattfinlayson/ansible-consul
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Ansible role for consul
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin made several changes to the Ansible role for Consul, primarily focused on configuration and deployment aspects. They updated the `consul.json.j2` template to include options like `leave_on_terminate` and made node name optional. They also modified the `consul.conf.j2` template for the Consul agent, integrating user and group settings, showcasing a focus on system configuration and infrastructure management. These updates demonstrate an understanding of Consul's deployment and configuration parameters, as well as Ansible templating.
ansibleansible-roleansible-galaxyconsulrole
benjaminws/python-stomp
Jul 2011 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 5 years 9 months
stomppython
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