Dave Benvenuti
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDave Benvenuti is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems, developer tools, and infrastructure automation. Currently at Shopify and cofounder of Practical Assurance, he blends hands-on architecture with product-focused engineering to deliver compliant, scalable services. His background spans startups and established companies—Backupify, TripAdvisor and others—where he led backend and cloud initiatives. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby cloud ecosystem, he has implemented DigitalOcean and AWS VPC/private networking support in well-known projects like fog and rubber, reflecting deep expertise in cloud integrations and DevOps automation. Notably, he pairs low-level API work (status-code fixes and mocked endpoints) with higher-level infrastructure design, a mix that helps teams move quickly without sacrificing reliability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science & Engineering, BSE, Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (19)
digitalocean-api10
network-configuration10
excon10
digitalocean10
cloud-infrastructure10
vpc10
ruby10
automation10
aws10
automations10
terraform9
apidoc9
mocking9
mocks9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rubber/rubber
Jul 2012 - Aug 2018
A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:162 commits, 9 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the configuration and automation of cloud infrastructure within the project. They focused on DigitalOcean integration, adding support for private networking, and implementing the AWS VPC provider. Key contributions include setting up VPCs, subnets, and associated resources, as well as incorporating the private networking configuration option. The user also worked on automating the instance creation process and integrating testing for the new configuration options.
bare-metalmetalec2railsproviders
fog/fog
May 2014 - Nov 2015
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave's commits primarily involve modifying code related to DigitalOcean integration within the fog Ruby cloud services library. They focused on updating region lists, adjusting the behavior of the private networking flag for DigitalOcean servers, and fixing whitespace. Furthermore, they improved mock responses for the DigitalOcean V2 SSH key endpoint and updated the status code to match the API documentation.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
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