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Benedict Taguinod
serving engineering, education, and everything in between
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(about me)
Thanks for coming in!
I lead engineering at Conectado, empowering students to succeed in their classrooms and careers.
In my past work at HPE, I developed cloud-native applications for scaling enterprises.
I love learning and I love building. Right now, my specialties are websites, automations, and infrastructure. Have a look around to see some of my work!
Today's brew
(current work)
Conectado Inc. · 2025–present
Conectado builds tech-powered pathways to economic mobility.
- —Set the software architecture and technical direction for all engineering teams.
- —Built the AI Opportunity Backpack: bootcampers match with opportunities and resources that fit what they're actually after.
- —Self-hosted Canvas LMS and n8n, cutting 50% of instructor time through AI-enhanced automation workflows.
On the menu
(selected work)
Two years of production cloud infrastructure work: a network automation service in Go for Private Cloud Business Edition, and Terraform-as-a-Service — a Go application that automates 60% of the Terraform deployment process for internal developers.
Started at HPE as a software engineering intern in 2022, building Helm tooling in Go + React. BS EECS from UC Berkeley, 2023.
- —Led 3 teams building the platform bootcampers use to find academic and career opportunities.
- —Designed and built the core application — students match with scholarships, jobs, and community resources.
- —A production-parity lab modeled on the cloud environments I built at HPE: virtualization, Kubernetes, network storage, and observability — every layer, owned end-to-end.
- —The entire stack is code: Terraform provisions Proxmox VMs across 4 mini PCs, Ansible configures the Docker Swarm cluster on top, and a TrueNAS server backs persistent volumes — reproducible from zero on new hardware.
- —Self-host production-grade services: n8n for workflow automation, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting.
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