Benjamin Petersen
Senior Product Manager For Auth And Security In Azure Upstream at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Petersen is a senior product leader and software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, Kubernetes-focused authentication and security features. Currently driving Auth and Security for Azure Upstream at Microsoft, he authors KEPs, writes PRDs for AKS integrations, and bridges upstream Kubernetes SIG-Auth work with downstream AKS and Entra teams. He pairs deep hands-on engineering (Golang, TypeScript, OIDC, Kubernetes) with product stewardship, having contributed significant console and auth functionality to high-profile open-source projects like OpenShift and Pinniped. His background spans full-stack UI work to backend API and operator development, and he regularly presents at KubeCon and on Microsoft’s open-source channels. Known for pragmatic leadership and mentorship, he focuses on accelerated delivery of user-impacting features and reliability in multi-cluster, federated identity scenarios. A designer-turned-engineer, he brings a rare mix of UX sensibility and systems-level security expertise to cloud identity problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Graphic Design, B.S. Graphic Design at University of Northwestern in St. Paul
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Github Skills (34)
application-framework10
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
webconsole10
css10
typescript10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
openshift-origin10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin-web-console
Jul 2015 - Jan 2020
Web Console for the OpenShift Application Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:287 commits, 344 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the web console for the OpenShift Application Platform. Contributions included syncing JSHint options, fixing linting errors, and modifying app data services. They added a layout attribute to the web console, refactored the project navigation, and implemented the viewing of build and pod logs within the console. Further improvements include fixes related to log file links, and the addition of a kibana archive log link on the log tab for builds and pods.
openshiftwebconsole
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Tanzu Framework provides a set of building blocks to build atop of the Tanzu platform and leverages Carvel packaging and plugins to provide users with a much stronger, more integrated experience than the loose coupling and stand-alone commands of the previous generation of tools.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:150 reviews, 39 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's commits primarily focus on refactoring and removing legacy components within the Tanzu Framework's Pinniped integration. They removed deprecated API groups, cleaned up helper functions and variables, and updated command-line interface functionality. The user also improved build image support and added a Makefile target.
loose-coupling
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