Benjamin Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at MilliporeSigma
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Nelson is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, revenue-impacting backend systems and data platforms at scale. He brings deep hands-on expertise across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD, and has rebuilt billing systems and engineered cost-saving analyses that materially reduced cloud spend. Benjamin has shipped distributed, event-driven architectures and managed service components (including Kubernetes operators and Apache Pulsar work) across multiple languages and stacks, while improving reliability, observability, and developer velocity. Comfortable spanning product-facing APIs to internal platform engineering and DevOps, he pairs technical ownership with cross-functional collaboration across product, data, and infrastructure teams. Based in St. Louis, he combines entrepreneurial roots as a former CTO/co-founder with a pragmatic, people-centered approach to engineering—building with curiosity and compassion.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate, Data Science, Professional Certificate, Data Science at University of WashingtonThe University of UtahMaster's Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity Institute of AI & TechnologyMasters, Finance, General, Masters, Finance, General at Empire State University
Github Skills (200)
data-manipulation10
testing10
e2e10
linter10
ecosystem10
hashicorp10
react-testing-library10
data-science10
nodejs10
zsh10
terragrunt10
activemodel10
static-code-analysis10
svelte-testing-library10
hcl10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
illegalnumbers/presentations
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
This is where my presentations are stored, from conferences, user groups, work, etc.
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 10 months
groupsstoredconferences
illegalnumbers/portfolio
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 9 months
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