Silas Baronda
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Baronda is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Columbus, Ohio, bringing 15 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms. He currently guides platform and infrastructure initiatives at Beam Benefits, with a focus on Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS, and a track record of enabling developers through CI/CD, structured logging, and robust microservices libraries. Silas combines hands-on backend engineering with architecture leadership, mentoring juniors and driving adoption of Git flow, ephemeral dev environments, and JWT-based service-to-service authentication. He has contributed to open-source projects such as the Terraform-provider-esxi in Go, demonstrating proficiency with SSH-based VM management and infrastructure as code. His career spans Beam Dental, OCLC, and other organizations where he built scalable APIs, React frontends, and tooling to support HIPAA-compliant platforms. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering, and based in Columbus.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (10)
terraformer10
back-end10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
terraform10
virtualization10
ssh10
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
josenk/terraform-provider-esxi
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Terraform-provider-esxi plugin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Silas primarily worked on the backend functionality of the Terraform provider for VMware ESXi. Their contributions involved implementing functions to interact with the ESXi host using SSH, including retrieving and modifying VM configurations, managing power states, and manipulating VMX files. A significant portion of their work focused on modifying and updating VMX file contents to manage virtual machine properties. The user utilized Go for the backend implementation, including libraries to make SSH connections to the ESXi hosts.
provideresxivcenterredfishterraform
silasb/csv-to-json
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
CSV to JSON while using the CSV headers as keys for the JSON objects. Also works with TSV files or any file that can be delimited.
Contributions:2 releases, 52 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 8 months
to-jsoncsvtsvjsonpathdelimited
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