Ben Schwartz
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Schwartz is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services with 11 years of hands-on experience building production software across internships and full-time roles. A Purdue Computer Engineering graduate, he has a strong systems and backend foundation with practical fluency in Python, C, and Java and a track record of shipping features at scale within AWS. His early career includes internships at Garmin, Ocient, and State Farm, plus work on autonomous racing software—indicating comfort with embedded systems and performance-sensitive code. Based in Seattle, Ben blends academic rigor with real-world cloud engineering, moving from intern to SDE II within AWS in under three years. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach and a knack for translating low-level optimizations into reliable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (30)
amazon-dynamodb10
dynamodb10
aws10
region10
amazon10
aws-cloud9
development-kit9
terraform9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
replication8
cloud-development-kit8
adapter8
infrastructure8
kinesis-stream8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/dynamodb-cross-region-library
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
A library to facilitate cross-region replication with Amazon DynamoDB Streams.
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
cross-region-replicationamazonamazon-dynamodbstreamsdynamodb-streams
amazon-archives/aws-dynamodb-mars-json-demo
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 17 days
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