Stephen Benjamin
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Multiproduct And Experience (MPEX) at Red Hat
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Benjamin is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience and a 10+ year tenure at Red Hat, specializing in cloud and bare-metal infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and reliability engineering. He has driven critical components of OpenShift and Metal3—contributing to widely used projects like openshift/installer, openshift/release, and the metal3 baremetal-operator—bridging low-level provisioning with higher-level release tooling. Equally comfortable as a tech lead and individual contributor, he blends Go, DevOps, and backend skills to improve install reliability, test infrastructure, and deployment automation. Recent work leverages AI to streamline processes and generate next-generation developer tools, reflecting a focus on productivity and operational resilience. He also brings teaching experience at Harvard Extension School and a background in systems and language-intensive roles (including Navy cryptology training), which together shape a pragmatic, security-minded approach to complex platform problems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Maryland Global CampusForeign Language (Arabic), Foreign Language (Arabic) at Defense Language InstituteMaster of Liberal Arts (ALM) Software Engineering, Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School
English, German, Spanish, Arabic, kichwa
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Github Skills (109)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-metal3/dev-scripts
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Scripts to automate development/test setup for openshift integration with https://github.com/metal3-io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 210 commits, 204 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on automating and improving the development and deployment workflows within the `openshift-metal3/dev-scripts` repository. They addressed issues by updating and fixing scripts for ironic container cleanup and cluster deployment using kni-installer and later openshift-baremetal-install. The contributions include migrating to the kni-installer for master deployments, improving the image caching mechanism within the CI environment, and refactoring the install configuration.
openshift
theforeman/community-templates
Feb 2014 - Nov 2018
A place to share templates for various OSes for Foreman's provisioning
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 16 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the automation and templating aspects of provisioning systems within the Foreman ecosystem. Their work involved creating and modifying templates for various operating systems (Red Hat, Debian, SUSE), focusing on tasks like FreeIPA integration, salt-minion setup, and puppet configuration. The user also added and refined jobs for remote execution via SSH, streamlining common tasks within the Foreman environment and improving usability.
provisioning
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