James Benson
Data Scientist
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Benson is a data scientist and cloud engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, production-ready analytics platforms and cloud infrastructure, primarily at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He specializes in automating and simplifying complex deployments using Python, Ansible, OpenStack, and AWS, and has a track record of turning multi-week provisioning tasks into one-click workflows for academic clusters. Comfortable from low-level scripting to distributed systems, he helped design Hadoop/Spark analytics stacks integrated with custom identity management and storage solutions. Colleagues call him the “go-to” problem solver who rapidly learns new domains and prioritizes clean, maintainable code. He holds advanced degrees in physics and electrical engineering, bringing a research-driven, systems-thinking approach to practical engineering problems. Outside work he experiments with Raspberry Pi and IoT projects, reflecting a hands-on curiosity that informs his infrastructure and edge computing work.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioWorkshop on Emerging Materials for Thin Film Solar Cells, Workshop on Emerging Materials for Thin Film Solar Cells at UC Santa BarbaraM.S. Physics, M.S. Physics at Clarkson University
German
Github Skills (51)
ubuntu9
docker8
fedora8
debian8
centos8
harbor8
openvpn8
container8
container-management8
kubernetes7
bash7
helm7
installer7
cloud-native7
container-registry7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JamesOBenson/cloud-init
May 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
JamesOBenson/Kolla-misc
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 77 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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