{"id":2,"date":"2009-08-24T23:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T01:11:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/avatars0.githubusercontent.com\/u\/169293?s=400&amp;u=f101b4f4098bd7718259d672e039a6432cf39d86&amp;v=4\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Present:<\/h2>\n<p>I work at NVIDIA as a solution architect.\u00a0 I started in May 2024.\u00a0 I LOVE this place!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone back to some really fun things I loved at IBM back in the early days.\u00a0 I get to work with amazing people.\u00a0 I pinch myself because I feel so lucky to be here.<\/p>\n<p>I also like to write and want to get better at it.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll be writing about some non-NVIDIA stuff here.<\/p>\n<h2>Past:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked at: Cisco, IBM and a few other small startups you&#8217;ve never heard of.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WeaveGrid (December 2020-May 2024)\u00a0 I was a platform engineer doing all things with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and build pipelines.\u00a0 It felt so good just stepping back into the world of hard core engineering and building toward a common purpose for good in the world.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really proud of the work we do and excited to watch this company grow. (still am!) The people I&#8217;ve been working with are extremely dedicated and talented and I&#8217;ve learned a bunch in just the short time I&#8217;ve been with them. I managed a team of 4 super good engineers.\u00a0 They tolerated me and we did pretty great work.<\/li>\n<li>Zenabi (February 2017-March 2020): Such a talented group of people I worked with building data pipes for doing data science on ecommerce systems.\u00a0 The company had some issues during covid and I started working independently after that.\u00a0 Contracting and just building fun stuff.\u00a0 2020 was mostly a gap year for me due to my 13 year old kid getting type 1 diabetes.\u00a0 That was crazy.\u00a0 Still is.<\/li>\n<li>Cisco (April 2011 &#8211; Feb 2017): Worked on Data Center Automation, Cloud, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure.\u00a0 I absolutely loved it at Cisco.\u00a0 Such incredible people and great opportunities.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t believe I left such a great job.\u00a0 A total dream job!<\/li>\n<li>Sumavi (Feb 2009 &#8211; April 2011): I founded this company with the goal to make bare metal provisioning enterprise ready!\u00a0 Great success and had a great time.<\/li>\n<li>IBM: I focused on using and developing the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/xcat.sf.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">xCAT<\/a> project to solve data center management problems for large scale systems.\u00a0 I loved it here and worked with great people!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created several iPhone applications and help friends get their businesses online doing an odd job of web coding here and there.<\/p>\n<h2>Future:<\/h2>\n<p>DevOps, Applications, Infrastructure as Code, AI, Automating all the things&#8230; And hopefully more writing on non-technical subjects.<\/p>\n<h2>The parallel universe:<\/h2>\n<p>I also enjoy long walks on the beach and watching gladiators wrestle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Present: I work at NVIDIA as a solution architect.\u00a0 I started in May 2024.\u00a0 I LOVE this place!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone back to some really fun things I loved at IBM back in the early days.\u00a0 I get to work with amazing people.\u00a0 I pinch myself because I feel so lucky to be here. I also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}