Peter Benjamin
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Komodo Health
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Benjamin is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud-native systems and developer-friendly identity and access workflows. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Go, Rust enthusiasm, Kubernetes, and application security with a track record of delivering IAM automation and reusable Terraform modules across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Peter has driven measurable security and developer productivity improvements—introducing GitOps pipelines, Vault-backed secret management, and CI/CD-integrated SAST/SCA—while shepherding cross-functional standards and threat modeling practices. A CNCF and Kubernetes contributor who co-organizes the San Diego Kubernetes and Golang meetups, he pairs developer advocacy with production engineering. Based in San Diego, he balances technical leadership at Komodo Health with a history of open-source tooling (e.g., KubeKit) and a practical focus on reducing cloud risk and provisioning lead time.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Cyber-Security & Information Assurance, Master of Science Cyber-Security & Information Assurance at National UniversityBachelor's Degree Organic Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree Organic Chemistry at San Diego State University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
pbnj/.dotfiles
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:73 commits, 1013 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
pbnj/awesome-podcasts
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
😎 Curated list of awesome programming podcasts, organized alphabetically & topically
Contributions:210 commits, 15 PRs, 152 pushes in 3 years 3 months
podcastibm-cloudfundamentalsprogramming-podcaststechnical-writing
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