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Benjamin Livingood

**Infrastructure Engineer · Cloud Reliability **

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I build and run distributed systems at scale: reliability, cloud infrastructure, and the platform work that keeps teams shipping. These days I'm building LLM agent infrastructure in the open.

Open to Infrastructure Engineer / Senior SWE / Staff Engineer / SRE roles. Remote or Hybrid or On-site


Currently Building

  • Rust Internet Pipe Engine, turn RSS/JSON/CSV into combined rss feeds ripe
  • Plan9 like filestem, exposing LLMs/MCP as filesystem commands for pipelines planefs
  • Geminon, various tools and utilities for LLMs geminon

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Highlights

  • 💰 Migrated a high-throughput distributed system across 100s of nodes to an open-source licensing alternative, saving $1.6M/year. Zero downtime, start to finish
  • ☁️ Identified and eliminated idle compute waste across all Kubernetes clusters through scheduled scaling, cutting $100K/year in cloud spend
  • ⚡ Migrated all team repos to GitHub Actions in 3 days, 2 months ahead of deadline
  • 📊 Full-stack observability: OpenTelemetry → Grafana SLI/SLO for production GRC platform
  • 🔐 Zero-downtime S3 SDK migration under FedRAMP + SOX compliance constraints
  • 🚀 ChatOps deployment workflow that increased daily deploys 5x

Tech Stack

💻 Languages

Go Kotlin Java Python Bash

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Kubernetes Docker Helm Terraform Rancher KEDA Linux

📊 Observability & Monitoring

OpenTelemetry Grafana Datadog Splunk New Relic

📨 Messaging & Data

NATS Cassandra MySQL MongoDB

🔄 CI/CD

GitHub Actions Git


Work Experience

Infrastructure Engineer (Independent) · Oct 2025–Present

ripe, planefs, geminon (see above)

Software Development Engineer in Test · Workiva · Jun 2023–Sep 2025

  • 🔐 FIPS 140-2 compliance test suites (Kotlin/Java)
  • GitHub Actions migration: all repos in 3 days, 2 months early
  • Production runbooks, ChatOps deploys, monitoring metrics

Software Engineer · Workiva · Sep 2012–Jun 2023

  • 💰 $1.6M/year: zero-downtime distributed system migration across 100s of nodes
  • $100K/year: fleet-wide scheduled scaling to eliminate idle compute
  • Cassandra/MySQL backends, Terraform, Go/Java/Kotlin stack

Systems Engineer · Oracle / RightNow · Jan 2010–Aug 2012

  • Multi-datacenter Linux infrastructure
  • KVM prototyping; MongoDB/Python NOC messaging system

Systems Administrator · Montana State University · 1999–2010


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Open to senior/staff engineering roles. Remote.

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