Benn Simon
System Engineer at Aleph Alpha
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolBenn Simon is a Senior Software Engineer and SRE based in Kenya with 10 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native and on-prem infrastructure. He drives efficiency and cost reduction through automation—examples include an operator that cut staging Kubernetes costs by 32% and an IRSA module that slashed EKS app setup time by 80%. Benn has improved deployment safety and CI quality by integrating OPA policies and exposing lint-mode in Helm, and he routinely standardizes observability across stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry and Fluent-bit. A First Class Honors graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science, he combines deep systems and networking knowledge (CCNA) with practical open-source tooling like his workload-scheduler and uptimerobot operators to accelerate reliable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate at Data to Information CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science at Kenyatta University
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (66)
web-application10
android-client10
charts10
helm10
form-wizard10
kubernetes10
health10
hl7-fhir9
interoperability9
server-core9
keycloak9
react9
java9
parquet8
apache-beam8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
opensrp/opensrp-client-eusm
Oct 2020 - Dec 2023
OpenSRP client for EUSM
Contributions:7 releases, 29 reviews, 24 PRs in 3 years 2 months
opensrp
bennsimon/helm
Jun 2023 - Sep 2025
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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