Nat Bennett
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolNat Bennett is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently co-founding StoryTime and consulting on mission-critical payment systems. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—Ruby, Go, BOSH, Concourse, k8s CRDs—with a strong focus on test reliability and observability, evidenced by sustained contributions to Cloud Foundry projects like UAA, BOSH, and cf-deployment. At Pivotal and VMware he led teams, introduced SLI-driven monitoring and reduced flaky tests by instrumenting acceptance suites with better telemetry. Nat excels at making safe, auditable changes in systems “no one fully understands,” and he pairs that with pragmatic release and deployment automation. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a rare combination of release-engineering depth and customer-facing production ops experience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Black Box Software TestingBachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at University of Lynchburg
Github Skills (41)
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
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testing10
configuration-management10
java10
cicd10
ruby10
javas10
release-management10
script10
junit10
go10
yaml10
sh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-deployment
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
The canonical open source deployment manifest for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:67 commits, 7 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily focused on improving the testing and deployment infrastructure for the Cloud Foundry deployment manifest. Their contributions included modifying testing scripts to incorporate changes related to external blobstores, as well as updating unit tests and configurations. They also addressed issues related to the use of BOSH DNS and other deployment aspects. These changes collectively aimed to enhance the reliability and maintainability of the deployment process.
foundrymanifestboshdeploymentcloud-foundry
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Cloud Foundry acceptance tests. They updated tests to use default timeouts, modified existing tests to accommodate changes in the Cloud Foundry CLI, and added checks for Windows-specific error messages. Furthermore, the user made changes related to task management, including skipping tests based on configuration flags and improving the reliability of the metrics tests.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
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