Lloyd Benson
Node.js Product Engineer at Joyent
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLloyd Benson is a seasoned Node.js product engineer with 12 years of experience building and automating production systems, currently focused at Joyent while running his own consultancy, Open Source Infrastructure LLC. He blends deep Unix/Linux and DevOps roots—spanning large-scale migrations, CI/CD, and automation—with hands-on Node.js product work and full-stack contributions to the hapi.js ecosystem. Lloyd’s open-source activity includes improving test reliability and QA for widely used projects like hapi and its monitoring tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on code quality and observability. Comfortable in both consulting and long-term product roles, he has a history of simplifying complex installs and legacy upgrades across industries from retail to healthcare. With a background in physics and mathematics, he brings analytical rigor to system design and a knack for making brittle systems reliably operable.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Grand Rapids High SchoolB.A., Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science (Minor), B.A., Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science (Minor) at Hamline University
Github Skills (13)
application-framework10
app-framework10
hapi10
web-framework10
javascript10
nodejs10
maintenance10
test-automation10
testing10
front-end-development9
http8
css8
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hapijs/good
Feb 2014 - Aug 2020
hapi process monitoring
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:84 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lloyd primarily contributed to the test suite of the `good` repository. They focused on modifying existing tests, including those for the monitor, broadcast, and network components. These changes involved fixing bugs and improving test coverage. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to console output within the test environment, ensuring the tests behaved as expected.
hapiprocess-monitoringhapijsnodejsmonitoring
hapijs/hapi
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Lloyd's contributions primarily focus on testing and quality assurance within the hapi.js framework. They made changes to existing test files, addressing style issues identified by linters, and improving test reliability. Furthermore, the user's work includes fixes to existing test suites and improvements to make existing tests work better, ensuring code quality.
securehapiframeworkhapijstrust
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