Valerie Benson
DevSecOps Engineer at Zen Healthcare IT
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValerie Benson is a DevSecOps engineer with 12 years of multidisciplinary software experience, blending systems security and infrastructure work with deep expertise in game and real-time systems development. They have shipped Unity C# and Rust tooling for spatial tracking and simulation—contributing to Ultraleap’s Unity SDK and simulating data for ML—while intentionally avoiding JavaScript and C++ development roles. Valerie’s background spans research and industry, from MIT Media Lab teaching and prototyping educational game systems to building internal tooling at Blizzard and AR interaction work at Leap Motion. Comfortable across Python, Rust, C#, and game engines like Godot and Unity, they bring a rare mix of audio/physics/shader experience and DevSecOps rigor. Based in Los Angeles and identifying as she/they, Valerie pairs creative systems design with pragmatic, security-minded engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Humanities & Engineering: Comparative Media Studies and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Humanities & Engineering: Comparative Media Studies and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
game-development10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
virtual-reality8
augmented-reality8
windows-mixed-reality8
apidoc7
user-interface7
api7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ultraleap/UnityPlugin
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Ultraleap SDK for Unity.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 83 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Valerie implemented and integrated a set of extensions for mapping values, and added support for Vector2, Vector3, and Vector4 data types within existing extension functionalities. The user also introduced a number of minor updates and fixes for the Unity plugin, including adjustments to inspectors, UI elements, and example scenes. The contributions included refactoring and refactoring code across various modules and examples, and overall improvements to the stability and utility of the SDK.
virtual-realityhand-trackingleap-motionsdkleapmotion
leapmotion/AppExperiments
May 2018 - May 2020
Experimental applications and home of AppModules, a wide-ranging app toolkit.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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