Dossier · Platform / SRE
Ben
Ebsworth
Platform / SRE engineer · Kubernetes, GCP & AWS · Melbourne, Australia
Highly self-driven engineer who is continually exploring new learnings. This place acts as a space for playing around with new ideas, and actively building my capability to robustly execute on entrepreneurial endeavors. I obtain great satisfaction from bringing new creations to fruition. I'm glad you've stopped by.
- 10+
- years building
- 9
- certifications
- 5
- talks given
Thetrackrecord
Work · DigioSeptember 2018 — presentSenior DevOps/FullStack Engineer · Digio
Leading the development and deployment of a set of production grade platform components on GCP. Facilitating adoption and consumption of the platform through a series of developer tooling and frameworks to streamline onboarding. Delivered the first production-grade GKE/GCP based platform for one of Australia's biggest banks.
- Work · DigioApril 2018 — September 2018
DevOps/FullStack Engineer · Digio
Building highly automated and robust production grade platforms on top of Kubernetes. Utilising service-mesh technologies such as Istio to enable sophisticated microservice architectures. Enabling next-generation monitoring/observability capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices. Led the delivery of Australia's first Istio deployment into production.
Work · TelstraAugust 2016 — April 2018DevOps/Full-Stack Engineer · Telstra
Leading the build and development of a small private cloud environment (4000 vCPU, 4 PB storage), as well as building the application layer on top which carried out large-scale message ingestion and transformation (capable of over 300k EPS).
- Work · TelstraFebruary 2015 — July 2016
Graduate Engineer · Telstra
Primarily working with networking/telecommunication technologies — Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and Checkpoint, and the respective CLI/GUI/automation tooling. Responsible for building out a range of small automation tools using Python and the Python SSH library Paramiko.
Education · Monash UniversityNovember 2014B.Eng. Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering (Honours) · Monash University
Thorough curriculum providing deep experimental and hands-on experience with the design, build, and analysis of complex real-time systems, embedded electronics, and analogue electronics, alongside a foundational knowledge in computer science.
- Education · Monash University2009 — 2013
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics & Experimental Physics · Monash University
In-depth exposure to low-level scientific theory in physics — quantum mechanics, particle physics, condensed matter, and cosmology. The applied mathematics major focused on statistical and computational analysis with strong coverage of partial and ordinary differential equations, with heavy emphasis on experimentation and report writing.
Thetrophyshelf
9 active certifications across the three clouds & the cloud-native ecosystem.
Amazon Web Services
4 certs
Google Cloud
3 certs
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
2 certs
Talks&speaking
Google Cloud Summit
▶ RecordingSydney, Australia — September 2018
Demonstrating Istio in action with a fullstack application and carrying out an example continuous delivery workflow via canary releases.
CNCF | Kubernetes Forum
▶ RecordingSydney, Australia — December 2019
Advanced session — "Open Policy Agent Templating and Testing". Exploring in depth the pathways to productionising OPA policy and gaining confidence through robust end-to-end integration testing.
