Silas Baronda
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Beam Benefits
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Baronda is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling from Columbus, Ohio. He’s fluent in Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Ansible, and has led platform work that includes CI/CD, service-to-service auth, structured logging, and ephemeral developer environments. At Beam (Dental/Benefits) he progressed from full‑stack engineering to platform leadership, mentoring juniors and codifying reusable microservice libraries and internal CLIs. He contributes practical open-source tooling as a backend Go developer on projects like a Terraform provider for ESXi, showing deep systems and SSH integration expertise not obvious from his cloud focus. Comfortable across web stacks (React/Rails) and infrastructure, he blends hands‑on engineering with architecture and operational reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into maintainable, secure systems that accelerate developer productivity.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
terraform10
virtualization10
ssh10
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
josenk/terraform-provider-esxi
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Terraform-provider-esxi plugin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Silas primarily worked on the backend functionality of the Terraform provider for VMware ESXi. Their contributions involved implementing functions to interact with the ESXi host using SSH, including retrieving and modifying VM configurations, managing power states, and manipulating VMX files. A significant portion of their work focused on modifying and updating VMX file contents to manage virtual machine properties. The user utilized Go for the backend implementation, including libraries to make SSH connections to the ESXi hosts.
esxiterraform-provider
silasb/csv-to-json
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
CSV to JSON while using the CSV headers as keys for the JSON objects. Also works with TSV files or any file that can be delimited.
Contributions:2 releases, 52 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 8 months
csvcsvtojsonjson-objects
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