Benjamin Howard
Software Developer II at Waabi
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Howard is a Software Developer II with nine years of experience building and optimizing high-scale, high-performance systems, now working on production ML and inference orchestration at Waabi. He has a strong track record at Amazon delivering transformer-based ranking pipelines, LLM content generation at scale, and reusable ML workflow frameworks that cut tech debt and accelerated model velocity. Benjamin excels at squeezing infrastructure costs—improving GPU utilization and raising cache hit rates from ~60% to 99%+—while maintaining model quality and observability for partner teams. Comfortable diving into unfamiliar domains, he pairs systems-level optimization with pragmatic delivery and a taste for well-designed code demonstrated across side projects on GitLab. Based in the Portland area, he brings a hands-on blend of DevOps, orchestration, and model-serving experience that reliably turns research-grade models into cost-effective production services.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (24)
fusion10
robot10
robot-simulator10
exports10
autodesk10
simulator9
robotics9
simulation9
physics9
cad8
vscode5
vscode-extension5
visual-studio-code5
nodejs4
golang4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thebenjhoward/CPSC224_01_bhoward2
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
thebenjhoward/helper-scripts
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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