Kevin Benson

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon.com Inc.•  September 2020 - November 2022•  Seattle

Participated in development and design of new CloudTune systems and microservices. Presented company-wide talks on team charter, general architecture, current service offerings, and future direction. Mentored interns (2x) receiving full-time return offers. Maintained coding standards, drove team efficiency improvements, participated in AGILE/Scrum rituals. Worked with cross-functional team(s) to deliver internal tooling automating capacity management.

Software Development Engineer I

Amazon.com Inc.•  August 2018 - September 2020•  Seattle

Wrote code to maintain and improve existing systems in CloudTune. Maintained coding standards, participated in Agile/Scrum rituals. Worked with cross-functional team(s) to deliver internal tooling automating capacity management.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon.com Inc.•  May 2017 - August 2017•  Seattle

Maintained coding standards, participated in Agile/Scrum rituals. Worked with a nuclear team within FinTech to develop an Apache Spark-based streaming data ingestion tool for an internal-facing ETL platform serving Amazon’s financial analysts.

Software Testing Intern

Health Navigator•  May 2016 - August 2016•  Chicago

Used Jenkins as an automation server to perform API reliability testing against Health Navigator’s endpoints. Tested platform’s Natural Language Processing capabilities and provided feedback on captured and non-captured phrases.