# Michael Benedict

> Software Engineer • Incident Management • Performance • Leadership • Site Reliability Engineer • Production Engineer • Distributed Systems

Location: Weehawken, New Jersey, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelbenedict

Proven Director and Staff Engineer whose success range from shrewdly negotiating over $5 million in savings to architecting a high performance, real-time hardware/software product. Dedicated, conscientious team player with outstanding leadership and
communication skills.

Core Competencies

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) | Incident Management | Distributed Systems | Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) | Written Communication | Cross-team Collaboration | Leadership | Talent Management | Multithreading | High Performance Compute (HPC) | Code Review | DevOps | Collaboration | Observability | Monitoring | Automation | Software Architecture

Technical Skills

Python | Ruby | C | C++ | Unix Shell | SQL | PHP | AWS | TCP/IP | UDP | HTTP | Linux | Pandas | Jupyter | TLS | Kubernetes (k8s) | Docker | ETL | Hadoop | CDN | Apache | Node.js

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
DevOps Engineer focusing on performance and reliability

### Production Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Oversaw the release of Meta's largest AI Training Stack from test framework design through CI/CD to operational support of production

### Senior Principal Engineer @ Tumblr
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
Directed engineering-wide initiatives spanning Staff Engineering engagement, Breaking Incident management, and strategic effort to improve the mobile experience for all users

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Tumblr
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York

### Director - Site Reliability Engineering @ Tumblr
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
Oversaw vendor management leading to switching vendors saving Tumblr over 1,000,000/yr while reducing incident frequency 4x.  Mentored multiple new managers overseeing an organization of 15 engineers.

### Performance Engineering Team Lead @ Exegy
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mobile Armor
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### Sr. Engineering Specialist @ Aclara Power-Line Systems
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Senior Engineer @ StarBak Communications
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006

### Co-op @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000

### Security Specialist @ ResNet
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000


## Education
### BS in Computer Science Engineering
The Ohio State University

### Walsh Jesuit High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mjbenedict
- Portfolio: http://zosima.org

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Last updated: 2026-04-13