Summary
Benjamin Carr is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing secure, high-performance systems in Java, Python, C++, C#, and SQL, currently based in Bellevue and focused on staying in the Seattle area. He has driven infrastructure and platform work at Microsoft and Hooli—shipping hardened kernel-mode drivers, Shielded VM deployment tooling, ASP.NET MVC data layers, and large-scale performance optimizations. Benjamin prefers elegant designs over quick fixes and is skilled at translating complex technical details into clear, non-technical terms for stakeholders. His specialties include task automation and cross-platform development, and he emphasizes test-driven development and maintainable version negotiation strategies. Colleagues rely on him for deep mastery of a problem domain and for taking ownership of end-to-end reliability and security. An early career foundation at IBM and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington underpin his pragmatic, systems-first engineering approach.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Washington
St. Mary's School