Derek Benson
Technical Solutions Specialist at The University of Queensland
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDerek Benson is a Technical Solutions Specialist and seasoned Unix/Linux systems administrator with two decades of experience managing HPC, virtual infrastructure and scientific workflows for research and government environments. He currently focuses on Galaxy application administration and virtual infrastructure on the NeCTAR Research Cloud, bringing deep operational knowledge of vSphere, SANs, SAM-QFS and a broad Unix lineage including Solaris, BSD and Linux. Derek’s background spans hands-on systems programming, automation with Puppet and scripting, monitoring and networking across Cisco platforms, and long-running production support for public genomics services. He has a track record of building resilient, instrumented platforms—having implemented monitoring, failover and large-scale file systems at a university level—and translates that into scalable HPC solutions for scientific users. Based in Brisbane, he combines institutional memory from legacy DEC/IRIX/Tru64 platforms with modern cloud-native operations, a mix that helps troubleshoot obscure infrastructure edge cases. Outside routine administration he’s contributed to operational tooling and monitoring projects that persistently improved service reliability for research communities.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Double Major IT, Bachelor of Arts, Double Major IT at University of QueenslandLae International Primary SchoolLae International High SchoolIpswich Grammar SchoolBachelor of Theology, Theology, Bachelor of Theology, Theology at Australian College of Theology
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Github Skills (36)
package-management10
conda10
pipeline10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
bioconda10
python9
workflow-engine9
docker9
galaxy9
wrapper9
data-science8
nmf7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dnbenso/pyro
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:33 pushes in 3 months
dnbenso/pyro-singularity
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:21 pushes in 6 months
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