M Bennett
Senior Systems Engineer at Linode
Cibolo, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolM Bennett is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, currently focused on systems reliability at Linode. He has deep operational experience with OpenStack and cloud orchestration from roles across Rackspace, USAA, ObjectRocket, and Linode, where he’s balanced incident response, monitoring, and tooling to keep large-scale services healthy. Comfortable both writing automation and diving into low-level ops, he has a track record of shipping practical tools that streamline support workflows and surface regressions early. An open-source enthusiast who contributes selectively to projects that solve real problems, he favors simple, maintainable solutions over clever complexity. Based in Cibolo, Texas, he brings steady operational judgment and a preference for pragmatic engineering to help teams run resilient cloud services.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Smithson Valley High SchoolSan Antonio College
Github Skills (70)
authentication10
oauth2-client10
authorization10
kitchen10
saml9
test-kitchen9
security9
oidc-client9
proxy9
oidc-provider9
overlay9
driver9
oauth2-server9
linux8
reverse-proxy8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
testeddoughnut/salt-formula-freeipa
May 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 11 months
testeddoughnut/salt-formula-openssh
Jul 2018 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 4 months
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