Ben Schofield
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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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
5 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, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Bath
Github Skills (66)
proto10
coreutils10
linter10
command-line-tool10
async10
rust10
grpc10
busybox10
lint10
aws10
space-partitioning9
lambda9
ratatui9
testing9
language-server-protocol9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Benjscho/gym-mdptetris
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 3 months
Benjscho/Benjscho.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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