Kenneth Bingham
Charlotte Metro United States
Summary
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RockstarKenneth Bingham is a systems engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Kubernetes, platform infrastructure, release engineering, and cloud automation, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and defensive security. He excels at working in the gaps between components—building tooling, tests, and processes that make complex systems understandable and resilient—and has led platform engineering and developer experience efforts. Technically versatile across Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, and C/C++, he has built Python SDKs, integration test frameworks, automated system image builds, and validation pipelines for packages, container images, and Helm charts. Kenneth is an active open-source contributor to projects like OpenZiti (improving containerization and CI/CD for ziti-tunnel) and zrok (improving docs and cross-builds), reflecting practical DevOps craftsmanship. He also brings M&A diligence experience—conducting security posture reviews and technical talent assessments—an unusual blend of hands-on engineering and business-targeted technical due diligence. Currently on sabbatical after a layoff, he’s recharging while exploring a few ideas and staying engaged with platform and cloud engineering trends.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
reverse-proxy10
algolia10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
golang10
network10
docusaurus10
overlays9
overlay9
net9
build-automation9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
openziti/ziti
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:299 reviews, 160 commits, 500 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the project by adding and improving Docker Compose configurations for the ziti-tunnel component, which included setting up proxy mode and Docker entrypoint configurations. They also improved error handling related to environment variables in the ziti-tunnel, which suggests a focus on reliability. The user's work included merging release branches and adding a shell script for building and pushing multi-platform Docker images, demonstrating expertise in containerization and CI/CD.
zero-trust-network-accesszero-trust-securityopenzitizero-trustztha
openziti/zrok
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Geo-scale, next-generation peer-to-peer sharing platform built on top of OpenZiti.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 86 commits, 292 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on improving the documentation website for the zrok project. They integrated Algolia search functionality, corrected the site's canonical URL, and aligned trailing slashes in Docusaurus configurations. Additionally, they committed the Algolia crawler configuration and added a container to cross-build on libc 2.28 for the project's build process. Furthermore, they copied the docker/compose files to the Docusaurus static assets to fix broken links.
file-sharinggolangnetworkpeer-to-peerreverse-proxy
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