Benson Fung
Software Systems & People Team Builder
A product focused, generalist software systems and engineering leader. Interested in technology that improves lives through transparency, efficiency, and simplification. Focused on Remote or Irvine, CA roles.
Experience
Director of Data Platform
Sep 2021 – Aug 2022
Brightloom • Remote
- Streamlined software engineering interview process resulting in consistent hiring criteria and high quality of hires.
- Provided non-technical stakeholders with a predictable and easy to understand feature delivery and launch plan.
- Forecasted Engineering budget and controlled infrastructure costs (AWS), saving 10% on a $2.0m budget.
Management
AWS
FinOps
Data Platform
Principal DevOps Engineer & Manager
Jan 2020 – Sep 2021
Brightloom • Remote
- Evaluated and selected core technologies, balancing build vs. buy. In buy scenarios, tools saved several headcounts in operational overhead.
- Partnered with the InfoSec organization to craft secure SDLC practices integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Led and supported development and operations of Kubernetes-based microservices and data pipelines.
Kubernetes
DevOps
CI/CD
InfoSec
Terraform
Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer & Manager
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Brightloom • Remote
- Designed and optimized centralized logging and metrics using Datadog for cloud services, reducing SaaS costs and time-to-debug.
- Implemented secure Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware updates for IoT systems (Raspberry Pi SoCs) for the Eatsa Spotlight Pickup System, removing operational friction for customer staff.
Datadog
IoT
Firmware
Ansible
Linux
Engineering Manager (Core Platform)
Nov 2014 – Jul 2016
Opower (Acq. by Oracle) • San Francisco, CA
- Led the Core Platform team of 4 engineers supporting 70+ developers in build tooling, deployment processes, and automated cloud operations.
Leadership
Developer Tooling
Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2011 – Jul 2014
Opower • San Francisco, CA
- Architected and implemented the authentication/authorization service and API gateway for Opower's microservice ecosystem.
- Developed core framework libraries adopted company-wide to standardize and accelerate microservice deployment and observability.
Java
API Gateway
Microservices
OAuth2
Software Engineer
Oct 2004 – Dec 2010
Incisent Technologies • Chicago, IL
- Designed and developed backend services and batch jobs processing statistical data for used car valuations using Java, C#, and Ruby on Rails.
- Designed, implemented, and operated the Data Warehouse using Microsoft SSIS and SSAS, optimizing report query times for real-time dealership lookups.
Ruby on Rails
Java
SQL Server
Data Warehouse
SSIS / SSAS
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Aug 1999 – May 2003
B.S. in Computer Science • Software Engineering Certification Program