Paul Benoit
Senior Devops Engineer at Auctane
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Benoit is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and migrating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading DevOps efforts at Auctane from Austin, Texas. He brings deep AWS expertise—Terraform, Docker, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS and ALB—having led major migrations, rebuilt gateways from legacy scripts to IaC, and implemented FIPS-compliant solutions for GovCloud. A UT Austin CS graduate with a McCombs business certificate, he combines technical rigor with operational ownership, including global 24x7 on-call support and automation-driven reliability improvements. His background spans enterprise-scale security and performance work at Forcepoint and large-scale migrations and tooling at Pearson, where he standardized Terraform and created Jenkins automation. Early roles in cloud and performance engineering (Rackspace, Walmart) and hands-on leadership in small businesses give him a practical, customer-focused approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Business Foundations, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Business Foundations at The University of Texas at AustinComputer Science, Computer Science at Austin Community College
Github Skills (30)
cloud-computing10
dsl10
policies10
gcp10
aws10
filter10
governance10
tencent-cloud10
lambda10
compliance10
azure10
serverless10
security9
cost-optimization9
yaml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rackerbenoit/html
Apr 2016 - Jul 2021
Hosted on Digital Ocean at paulbenoit36.me
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
oceanmusichosteddigital-ocean
rackerbenoit/chef-flywaydb
Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
Chef cookbook to install flywaydb and execute flyway commands
Contributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 8 months
flywaycookbookflywaydbchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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