Bjorn Freeman-benson
Principal Architect at Hydrolix
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBjorn Freeman-Benson is a principal architect and seasoned technology leader based in Portland with a Ph.D. in computer science and a career spanning startups to IPO-scale organizations. He combines a behavioral approach to software—mentoring teams to find their own best solutions—with hands-on work in cloud-native tooling, developer experience, and PLG product strategy. As CTO/SVP at multiple companies he scaled engineering orgs dramatically, led migrations to Kubernetes and continuous deployment, and filed patents that shaped product direction. He contributes to open source documentation and UX for prominent projects like the Emissary ingress (Envoy-based) gateway, improving onboarding and tutorial UX. Colleagues know him as a “software psychologist” who watches systems and teams for early signals and intervenes to keep delivery fast and outcomes better than expected.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of WashingtonPullman High School
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
api-gateway10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods10
react9
javascript9
lessc9
ui-design8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bjorn primarily focused on front-end development within the documentation of the Ambassador Edge Stack project. Their contributions included updating and modifying the user interface of the documentation, specifically the "Getting Started" tutorial. They updated the tutorial's layout and styling to match the marketing site more closely, while also adding new content like an image and a link to a demo. The user's work improved the user experience and visual consistency of the documentation.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
bnfb/flask-hello-world
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 12 days
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