Dave Bendit
Freelance Software Engineer
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Bendit is a freelance software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-availability, scalable, and secure backend systems across retail and large-scale cloud environments. He has delivered measurable operational improvements—reducing firmware rollout time at Oracle and cutting labor costs through directed conveyance at Amazon—while guiding migrations to resilient, per-service data stores. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and systems work, he has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Ansible (enhancing Docker network modules) and maintained tooling such as a Factorio headless server Docker entrypoint. Dave combines deep production ops experience with a track record of simplifying complex integrations (payments, tax, international commerce) and improving observability to reduce incident noise. Based in Sun Prairie, WI, he often pairs pragmatic scripting and automation with architectural design, reflecting roots in system administration and cluster management. Colleagues describe him as a reliable problem-solver who translates messy operational requirements into auditable, maintainable systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
python10
scripting10
io10
dockers10
script10
f10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
headlessui9
headless-browser9
bash9
server-administration9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 88 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the Ansible project by enhancing the `docker_network` module, introducing features such as the `internal`, `scope`, and `attachable` flags. They addressed issues related to Python boolean handling and version compatibility within the Docker API. The user also developed the `docker_network_facts` module, demonstrating a focus on extending the project's capabilities related to Docker network management and consolidation of common docker utilities.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
factoriotools/factorio-docker
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Factorio headless server in a Docker container
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 14 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on modifying the Docker entrypoint script within the Factorio-docker repository. Their commits added support for features like server-adminlist, server-banlist, and addressed map generation settings. The work involved direct modification of the shell script to configure the Factorio server instance launched inside the Docker container, affecting crucial gameplay parameters. This includes aspects of server management, access control, and configuration setup for the Factorio game server.
docker-containerfactoriodockerfactorio-serverheadless
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