Ben Kimball
Senior Software Development Engineer III (L6) at Amazon
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBen Kimball is a Senior Software Development Engineer (L6) with 12 years of professional experience building cloud-native systems across industries, currently at Amazon in Redmond. He combines systems-level thinking from an Electrical Engineering and Pure Mathematics background with hands-on expertise in Rust, Ruby, React/Vue, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and AWS. Ben has led end-to-end projects from satellite data pipelines and encrypted on-prem storage at Xplore to backend services enabling online multiplayer at Wizards of the Coast, consistently delivering secure, deployable production systems. He’s comfortable moving between embedded data pipelines, backend APIs, and front-end experiences, and has a track record of mentoring engineers and owning DevOps/CI-CD. Outside of work he’s a maker with interests in music and mathematics, which show up in his practical, curiosity-driven approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Honors | Pure Mathematics, Electrical Engineering Honors | Pure Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benkimball/ndig
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 20 pushes in 2 months
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