Evan Benshetler
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Benshetler is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and optimizing production ML and backend systems across Google, Bosch, and Red Hat (via StackRox), now based in Heidelberg. He specializes in accelerating machine learning workloads—particularly on TPUs—and has driven infrastructure and CPU/TPU optimizations for large-scale model training and serving. Evan combines deep backend and DevOps expertise (notably contributions to the StackRox Kubernetes security platform and AWS Security Hub integration) with applied computer vision and AI platform leadership. His career blends hands-on engineering, site reliability exposure through Google's Mission Control rotation, and cross-team consulting to modernize ML deployments at enterprise scale. Outside work he explores game-state reasoning and computer vision in passion projects, reflecting a persistent curiosity about algorithmic problem-solving.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Computer and Information Science, MSE Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, American Sign Language, German
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
cicd9
aws9
api8
api-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 36 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. Their contributions included fixing build dependencies, removing UI elements and backing storage, fixing policy checks, adding fields to storage protocols, generating package mocks, and integrating AWS Security Hub. They also worked on refactoring and implementing features related to RBAC, and contributed to the dev-tools by adding `helmdiff.sh`.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
ebensh/playground
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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