Summary
Benjamin Steenkamer is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience blending academic research and industry product development, now working at Capital One. He holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has deep expertise in low-level programming, high-performance computing, and hardware/software interfaces developed while building high-speed HWIL scene projectors as a founding engineer. Benjamin has led full-stack and DevOps efforts, owned multiple development cycles, and created Linux deployment environments—skills shaped by hands-on PCB and analog/digital hardware work from earlier research. He gravitates toward aerospace, automotive, finance, and semiconductor domains and brings a security-minded background from published cybersecurity research in container and use-after-free vulnerabilities. Notably, he combines systems-level curiosity with product delivery, able to move projects from hardware test benches to production-grade software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Delaware