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Benjamin Martensson
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Benjamin Martensson
SRE, passionate about Go, distributed systems, and open source enthusiast.

Hi! I’m Benjamin, a systems engineer, developer and open source enthusiast. Outside of work I am a father who loves nature, photography & mountain biking. I am currently living in Argentina.

If you want to get in touch with me you can email me or find me on Linkedin or GitHub.

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I went to University of Gothenburg for a degree in Informatics.

I currently work as a consultant for Witted Megacorp, Norway.

I’ve been working for nearly 20 years with GNU/Linux systems, devops, SRE, networking and software development. It has given me the experience to manage classic Redhat Enterprise on-prem infrastructure with configuration management tools like Puppet, Saltstack and Ansible, to modern Cloud Native environments using Kubernetes, GitOps and IaC.

My daily work consists of SRE tasks managing GNU/Linux servers and Kubernetes. Some of the daily technologies I work with today are Azure, GCP, Rancher, Akamai, F5 BIGIP, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, ArgoCD, Elastic, Grafana LGTM, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and everything else you expect from a modern linux stack. I also enjoy trying out new technologies, learning new programming languages, and hacking things in general.

I am a heavy nvim/vim user, and today I do most of my hacking in Go and Python and occasionally other languages when best fitted.

Photography
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I have a passion for photography and shoot with Sony, Fuji, DJI, or just my phone. When I have the time I enjoy taking my camera on my shoulder for long walks in the city or nature.

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Free time consist of spending time with family and friends, reading, hiking, mountain biking, and playing piano on my Roland FP-30X.