Benson Kalahar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBenson Kalahar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient production systems at Google. He blends pragmatic engineering—Python, Ruby, C, and Go—with deep Linux, Git, and automation expertise to simplify workflows and solve real user problems rather than chasing buzzwords. Benson has contributed to cloud tooling such as the fog Ruby library, adding Google Cloud load-balancing features and infrastructure improvements, demonstrating practical cloud networking experience. He prefers clear, problem-driven architectures and is motivated by helping teams deliver dependable services at scale. Unconventionally, his background includes a year-long tandem bicycle trip, reflecting a curiosity and persistence that inform his collaborative, user-focused approach to engineering.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Western Washington University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
web-application10
load-balancing10
ruby10
gcp10
parsing10
yaml10
nodejs10
configurations10
python9
apidoc9
v89
google-cloud-storage9
rest-api8
api8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Benson primarily focused on implementing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specific features within the Fog library. Their work involved adding support for HTTP health checks, target pools, and forwarding rules, core components for load balancing and managing network traffic. Additionally, they contributed to infrastructure-related tasks such as making disk deletion optionally asynchronous. The contributions highlight an understanding of cloud infrastructure and service management on GCP.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
googlearchive/storage-bulk-delete-python
May 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 8 months
apicloudcloud-storagenodejsjson-storage
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