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 (118)
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opengl10
crate10
fastly10
raylib9
golang9
webassembly9
testing9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
computermouth/niveluno
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:129 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
CBPP/obapps
May 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
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