Ben Willetts
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Willetts is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft in Seattle with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and large-scale enterprise microservices since graduating from McGill in 2019. He leads architecture and design discussions, focusing on performance and reliability across client and server systems for the Digital Transformation Platform Group. Comfortable across a diverse set of languages and frameworks, he has practical experience from front-end UI work to backend APIs and has built tooling for research teams during a health informatics internship. A former teaching assistant in functional programming, he brings a strong foundation in language paradigms and enjoys applying that rigor as he pivots toward applied machine learning through hackathons and coursework. Notably, he balances production engineering at Microsoft with active personal projects on GitHub that reflect his interest in scalable, data-driven software.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma; OSSD Diploma, IB Diploma; OSSD Diploma at Canadian International School of Hong KongBachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at McGill University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
react4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WDDnguyen/ECSE428_Project
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Shredit
Contributions:61 commits, 25 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
react
bendwilletts/personal-site
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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