Joey Benamy Golden Path DevOps

Selected work

Projects & case studies

Real systems, real constraints, and what moved the needle.

Haste
2018 – 2021

75% lower infrastructure cost

Cutting infrastructure spend by three quarters

A latency-sensitive network product ran on hundreds of Linux servers across dozens of hosting providers around the world. The job was keeping that fleet consistent, observable, and affordable.

  • Managed the fleet as code with Ansible playbooks for provisioning and routine maintenance
  • Connected providers through a custom overlay network with bastions, SSH tunnels, and IPsec/OpenVPN
  • Set up monitoring and paging with Datadog, Site24x7, Observium, and PagerDuty
  • Built a client-server load-testing suite on AWS ECS so capacity decisions came from data
  • Ansible
  • AWS ECS
  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty
  • Jenkins
  • Linux

Benamy International
2016 – present

12 bare-metal servers consolidated

Modernizing a 40-person company's IT, one weekend at a time

Fifteen-year-old phones, a closet full of aging servers, on-prem Exchange, and a backup system nobody trusted. The work had to happen without stopping the business.

  • Consolidated a dozen physical servers into Hyper-V and rebuilt the server room
  • Migrated Exchange 2010 and Active Directory to Office 365
  • Standardized networking on Cisco Meraki with dual-WAN failover, and added RD Gateway and SSTP VPN for remote work
  • Replaced backup and DR, and wrote the business continuity plan to match
  • Hyper-V
  • Office 365
  • Cisco Meraki
  • ShadowProtect
  • PCI

Golden Path DevOps
2025

$0 monthly hosting

This site: WordPress to static, at $0/month

A WordPress blog that was slow, needed constant patching, and cost money every month just to stay up.

  • Rebuilt the site as static Astro with content collections and zero client-side framework
  • Hand-written CSS, self-hosted variable fonts, and build-time image optimization
  • Deployed from git with no servers to patch
  • Astro
  • Netlify
  • Markdown
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Localhost
2022 – 2024

Localhost: a community for people who automate

IT, security, and DevOps practitioners often work alone inside their companies, with nobody nearby to compare notes with.

  • Founding member of a free Slack community for IT, security, and DevOps professionals
  • Helped shape an automation-first culture of sharing resources and mentoring the next generation of leaders
  • Community
  • Slack