Ben Schofield
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schofield is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building distributed systems at AWS, currently working on Hydro after contributing to Amazon Aurora's developer-led adoption and data plane for session routing, pooling, and firecracker µVM compute hosting. He combines practical production experience with a formal-methods mindset, focusing on reliability, low-latency orchestration, and designs that avoid paging under load. Based in Seattle, he progressed rapidly through SDE roles at AWS after earlier IT and operations work, and holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bath following an MA in English Literature from Edinburgh—an uncommon blend that sharpens both technical rigor and communication. Colleagues know him for tackling hard systems problems end-to-end, from protocol-level behavior to deployment primitives.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts with Honours, English Literature, Master of Arts with Honours, English Literature at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction at University of Bath
Github Skills (102)
proto10
coreutils10
client-server10
async-await10
command-line-tool10
async10
linux10
rust10
grpc10
busybox10
aws-lambda10
cross-platform10
lang10
lint10
nim-language10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Benjscho/gym-mdptetris
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 3 months
Benjscho/Benjscho.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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