Todd Benning
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Benning is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 10+ years building cloud-native, cross-platform systems and a strong focus on observability and reliability for large DevOps products. He has led architecture and delivery at Microsoft and GitHub after designing scalable Azure IoT and telemetry platforms that managed tens of thousands of field devices. Comfortable across .NET, C#, Docker, Azure and AWS, Todd blends hands-on engineering with team leadership—having managed agile teams, set up CI/CD and testing workflows, and driven platform-level improvements. Notably, he has delivered mission-critical systems for both commercial IoT and defense customers, applying patterns from high-assurance environments to improve production reliability. An eternal learner, he continuously experiments with new technologies while prioritizing pragmatic, maintainable solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (88)
serilog10
queue9
azure9
sink9
webjobs9
xunit9
wsl29
logging9
csharp9
dotnet8
sdk8
job-scheduler8
visual-studio8
windows8
microsoft-azure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
trbenning/CosmosDbRepository
Jun 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
trbenning/serilog-sinks-xunit
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
The xunit test output sink for Serilog
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 30 commits in 3 years 1 month
sinkdotnetxunit-testserilogxunit
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