Oz Ben-ami
Head Of Platform Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOz Ben-ami is a Head of Platform Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, cost-efficient cloud and Kubernetes platforms that power batch and interactive ML workloads. He combines deep infrastructure expertise—from networking, GPU drivers, and storage to CI/CD and one-click Jupyter—with software-engineer rigor in Python, Go, and scripting, and a solid theoretical grounding from a BSc in Applied Math at Columbia. Oz has led platform migrations, compliance and observability efforts at firms like Butterfly Network and Citadel, and contributed usability improvements to the widely used eksctl CLI by adding shell completions and refactoring components. Passionate about ML and NLP, he has implemented Transformers and diffusers from scratch, studies FastAI coursework, and uses Kaggle to sharpen applied skills, positioning him to bridge platform engineering and production ML. Notably, he seeks roles that let him move deeper into ML without sacrificing senior-level compensation and impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Jerusalem College of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Github Skills (20)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
command-line-interface10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
cloud-services10
devops10
k8s10
cli10
scripting9
bash9
kubernetes-cluster9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eksctl-io/eksctl
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
The official CLI for Amazon EKS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Oz primarily focused on enhancing the eksctl CLI's functionality by implementing and refining shell completion scripts. They added support for bash and zsh completion, creating commands to generate the necessary scripts and integrating them within the eksctl command structure. Their work also involved refactoring the completion components into a separate package and correcting documentation, improving the overall user experience for command-line interaction within the EKS environment.
amazon-eksclikubernetesamazon-web-serviceskubernetes-cluster
ozzieba/quicktile
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Adds window-tiling keybindings to any X11-based desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use the Compiz Grid plugin)
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
windowsx11linuxrevolutionwindow
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