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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.

Irvine, CA·LinkedIn·GitHub

Experience

Engineering Manager

Datadog·Remote·Dec 2022 – Present

  • Lead Demo Engineering, a software development team creating content that showcases what the Datadog platform can do.
  • Lead the Community Open Source Engineering team, engaging the open source community around Vector (vectordotdev/vector) and Quickwit (quickwit-oss/quickwit).

Engineering Leadership, Open Source, Rust, Observability

Director of Data Platform

Brightloom·Remote·Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

  • 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

Brightloom·Remote·Jan 2020 – Sep 2021

  • 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

Brightloom·Remote·Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

  • 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)

Opower (Acq. by Oracle)·San Francisco, CA·Nov 2014 – Jul 2016

  • 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

Opower·San Francisco, CA·Aug 2011 – Jul 2014

  • 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

Incisent Technologies·Chicago, IL·Oct 2004 – Dec 2010

  • 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 — B.S. in Computer Science, Aug 1999 – May 2003

Software Engineering Certification Program

Skills

Core Expertise

Data Stack Design, Distributed Systems, DevOps & GitOps, Engineering Leadership, Cost Optimization, Cloud Operations

Languages

Python, Java, Ruby, SQL, Bash

Infra & Orchestration

Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, HashiCorp Vault, Chef / Puppet

Data Platforms

Databricks, Delta Lake, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS EMR

AWS Cloud

EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, EC2 / ELB, CloudWatch

CI/CD & Observability

Datadog, CircleCI, Jenkins, Loggly