Benjamin Young
Software Engineer at News Direct Corp.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Young is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed applications. He has driven migrations to AWS and designed Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment workflows that improve uptime and simplify releases across organizations from startups to scale. At Fastly he works on a Rust-based, wasm-run distributed object store, and previously led cloud-first architectures using CloudFormation, ECS/Fargate, and robust networking for secure, isolated deployments. His background in embedded Linux image tooling and boot firmware at Next Thing Co. gives him uncommon depth across both low-level systems and modern cloud platforms. Hands-on experience with Windows server administration early in his career adds practical ops empathy to his developer-focused platform work. Based in Chicago, he blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on safety and operational simplicity that accelerates developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at McHenry County College
Github Skills (158)
gtk10
cpp10
rust-language10
rust-lang10
linux10
golang10
compiler10
rust10
opengl10
crate10
android10
standard-library10
post-installation10
game-engine9
raylib9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CBPP/cbpp-welcome
Feb 2015 - Apr 2021
Optional post installation script for CBPP
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 3 months
installation-scriptpost-installationinstallationcbpp
ntc-chip-revived/pocketchip-configs
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:54 commits in 5 months
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