Liam Bennett
Deputy CTO & Director Of Engineering at Claranet
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Bennett is a seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience scaling engineering organisations and shaping cloud and product strategy across Claranet. As Deputy CTO and former Cloud Practice Director, he has grown and aligned 50+ FTE teams across three countries, built developer experience tooling, and owned budgets while working directly with CxOs to drive transformation. He combines hands-on cloud and DevOps expertise—contributing Windows-focused improvements to the well-known Beaker acceptance testing project—with a strong background in automation, CI/CD and multi-cloud platforms. Based in Ashford, UK, Liam is equally comfortable mapping long-term platform roadmaps as he is diving into technical problems and mentoring engineers. He writes about technology and leadership at liamjbennett.me, reflecting a thoughtful approach to purpose, values and systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science with Year in the Industry Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science with Year in the Industry Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (17)
puppeteer10
puppet10
windows10
powershell10
vagrant10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
cicd7
build-process6
get-property6
ant6
home-directory6
hudson6
buildr6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 11 PRs, 38 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Liam's contributions center on enhancing the `beaker` project's Windows support. They primarily focused on streamlining the installation process for Puppet on Windows systems, including updates for 32-bit Windows architectures and integrating PowerShell commands. Additionally, the user worked on improving Vagrant integration, specifically related to network configuration and DNS resolution within the Vagrant environment, alongside adjustments to the SSH configuration. They also added a utility method to configure host entries on Windows hosts.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
stack72/packer-images
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 month
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