Kevin Benton
MySQL DBA at CE
Bristol, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Benton is a seasoned MySQL DBA and team leader with 20+ years of experience and 14 years in dedicated database roles, currently focused on production reliability from his base in Bristol, Tennessee. He has led and scaled DBA teams across relational and NoSQL platforms (MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB), built HA database architectures, and automated deployments in AWS using Ansible. Known for tooling and process improvements, Kevin has written automation and best-practice guides that let DBAs focus on complex problems rather than routine tasks. He has hands-on engineering roots—from early systems and monitoring tools to managing large fleets of MySQL servers and multi-terabyte clusters—plus senior ops leadership experience at companies like Sears and ActiveCampaign. Kevin also contributes to OpenStack projects such as Nova and Tempest, lending his expertise to test automation and network-related compute features. Practical, managerially experienced, and still deeply technical, he blends people leadership with a maker’s mentality for durable operational tooling.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Akron
English
Github Skills (22)
libvirt10
debug10
python10
net10
servicenow10
test-framework10
n10
networking10
pest10
openstack10
temper10
openstack-neutron10
tempo10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to enhancing the Nova compute service within the OpenStack ecosystem. Their work includes implementing new unit tests for the IVS VIF driver, allowing instances to attach to shared external networks, and addressing issues related to network event processing. They also added support for MTU values from Neutron and refactored code to align with the os-vif data model for network attachments. These changes focused on network configuration, virtual interface management, and overall stability within the OpenStack compute environment.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/tempest
Aug 2014 - Feb 2017
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the testing framework for the OpenStack Tempest project. Their contributions involved fixing existing tests and adapting them to work with evolving project configurations, such as distributed virtual routers. They also added new tests and adjusted existing logic to better handle edge cases and error scenarios. Furthermore, they refactored existing test setup to emit warnings when the server had inactive ports.
testingcloud-foundryinfrastructurecloudopendev
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