Benjamin Watkins
Senior DevOps Engineer at Capital On Tap
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Watkins is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and automating cloud and on-prem Windows infrastructures across fintech and enterprise environments. He specializes in Azure, PowerShell, IIS, and deployment/CI tooling (Octopus, TeamCity), and pairs that with configuration management (Puppet/Chef) and deep monitoring expertise (Splunk, NewRelic, LogRhythm). At Capital on Tap and previously WorldRemit he has focused on reliability and automated delivery pipelines that shrink release cycles while improving observability. His background supporting large international estates and building bespoke tools gives him a pragmatic systems-first approach to solving operational complexity. Based in North Hertfordshire, he blends infrastructure engineering with security-conscious architecture and a track record of mentoring teams through migrations and upgrades.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
North Hertfordshire CollageComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at North Hertfordshire College
Spanish, c# .net, vb .net
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
hole-punching10
vcenter10
peer-to-peer9
udp9
vmware9
kubeadm9
kubernetes-cluster9
csharp9
automation9
kubernetes-deployment9
kubernetes-setup9
dotnet8
nat8
kubernetes7
github-api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
7wingfly/autok8s
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Automate the installation of self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
Contributions:23 PRs, 121 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 4 months
kubernetes-clusterautomationhelm-chartskubeadmkubernetes
7wingfly/P2Pchat
Dec 2015 - Jul 2019
A Peer-to-Peer chat program that demonstrates the implementation of UDP Hole-Punching, using a server with a known End Point to negotiate a direct connection between two clients behind NAT firewalls. Written in c#.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
csharphole-punchingpeer-to-peerudp
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