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Benji Hertel

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Engineering Manager IT at VSCO®
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Benji Hertel is an Engineering Manager at VSCO with over 15 years of experience in IT, systems reliability, and DevOps. He specializes in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and petabytes of data storage across AWS and GCP. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kentucky.

Outside of his technical leadership role, Benji has a keen interest in photography, maintaining his own portfolio. He is also an avid gamer with a stated interest in PlayStation. He previously co-founded a hosting business, demonstrating his long-standing entrepreneurial spirit and hands-on technical skills.

He recently accepted a Cloudflare Visionary award on behalf of his team at VSCO.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Engineering Manager IT
Job Level
Middle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Cloud Infrastructure
Manages thousands of resources in AWS/GCP using Terraform and is responsible for multiple Kubernetes clusters and petabytes of S3 storage.
Site Reliability
Has over five years of experience in SRE and DevOps roles, focusing on securing and scaling infrastructure with tools like Envoy and HAProxy.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Engineering Manager IT
VSCO®
7-2021
Engineering Manager Infrastructure
VSCO®
11-2020 - 7-2021
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
VSCO®
5-2014 - 11-2014
Technical Consultant
Taos
12-2012 - 1-2014
Senior Systems Administrator
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Education
1996 - 1997
Bachelor of Science (BS)
University of Kentucky
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