Liam Bennett
Staff Software Engineer at bp
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Bennett is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms across startups and large enterprises. He has held senior engineering and leadership roles at Gitpod, CircleCI, and bp, specializing in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automated infrastructure—most notably contributing to Gitpod’s preview environment reliability and certificate/DNS automation. Liam pairs a physics and molecular modelling background with hands-on DevOps and SRE expertise, enabling him to translate complex systems into maintainable, secure deployments. Comfortable operating at both the tactical implementation level and in cross-functional leadership, he frequently removes legacy complexity to streamline platform delivery. A practical open-source contributor, he focuses on making developer workflows faster and more secure by improving platform tooling and infrastructure automation.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Imperial College LondonUniversity College London
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cert-manager10
cicd9
development-environment9
gcp9
dns9
dev-environment9
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gitpod-io/gitpod
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 29 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Liam primarily focused on improving the deployment and management of preview environments within the Gitpod platform. Their contributions involved refactoring and removing legacy code related to core-dev preview environments and implementing new features related to certificate management and DNS record updates. The user demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD processes, including tasks such as integrating cert-manager, managing cloud DNS records, and automating infrastructure setup.
automatestheiadev-environmentdisposabledevcontainer
liam-j-bennett/werft
May 2022 - May 2022
Just Kubernetes Native CI
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
devopsdockerk8skubernetesgitops
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