Benjamin Floyd
RUF Campus Assistant at RUF (Reformed University Fellowship)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Floyd is a curious and multidisciplinary software engineer with nine years of experience blending backend engineering, QA, and mentorship across startups, nonprofits, and Microsoft internships. He holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics and pursued an MDiv, reflecting a rare combination of technical depth and pastoral leadership experience. At Microsoft he contributed to enterprise-scale tooling like VFSForGit and built analytics and AI pricing tools, demonstrating a focus on scalable systems and robust test automation. His work spans service integrations, file virtualization, and generative-AI research, and he has a history of mentoring students and coordinating community-focused initiatives. Driven by a lifelong pursuit of "insight," he seeks roles that pair rigorous engineering with opportunities to learn, teach, and serve.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Divinity - MDiv, Pastoral Studies/Counseling, Master of Divinity - MDiv, Pastoral Studies/Counseling at Covenant Theological SeminaryBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityEnloe High School
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
nunit10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
sqlite8
npm6
javascript6
yarnpkg6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VFSForGit
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:22 commits, 24 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the development of a health verb for the `vfsforgit` repository. This involved implementing a command-line tool to analyze repository health by gathering data from various sources like the Git index and SQLite database. Their work also included refactoring unit tests, introducing a builder design pattern, and enhancing the test suite by including functional tests that validate the health verb's behavior across different scenarios, demonstrating a focus on both backend functionality and test automation.
version-controllibgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scale
Halterer/VFSForGit
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Contributions:47 pushes, 22 branches in 2 months
libgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scalegit-lfs
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