Joshua Benjamin
Principal SRE at iHerb, LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoshua Benjamin is a Principal SRE with 11 years of engineering experience, currently leading reliability and platform work at iHerb after a long tenure building software and systems at Syncromatics. A self-taught programmer who began coding young, he excels at system architecture, algorithm design, and turning whiteboard ideas into production through TDD and pragmatic iteration. His background includes improving test stability in the popular Akka.NET project—addressing race conditions and DeathWatch issues—demonstrating a knack for hard-to-detect, reliability-focused fixes. Comfortable as an early employee in startup environments and as a principal at larger teams, he blends hands-on coding with mentorship and delivery discipline. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a practical, problem-solving mindset honed from both military technical service and over a decade of production systems work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
csharp10
distributed-programming10
akka10
actor-model10
concurrency10
dotnet-core10
clustering9
dotnet-new9
cluster-computing9
dotnet9
url-routing9
android-things6
typescript6
javascript6
backbonejs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:30 commits, 39 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on fixing and improving tests within the Akka.NET framework. Their contributions include addressing race conditions and timeouts in existing tests, particularly within the routing and actor system components. They also made improvements to the test suite by fixing issues related to the DeathWatch mechanism. Furthermore, the user addressed inconsistencies and bugs within several components of the Akka.NET test suite, which directly improved the stability and reliability of the testing process.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
syncromatics/akka.net
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:84 pushes, 32 branches, 3 comments in 10 months
scalaactorsakka-actorsakka
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