Summary
Bennett Burns is a Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently working at Amazon Web Services in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He progressed through multiple roles at Amazon, including an SDE internship where he delivered an audit log interface and worked on distributed routing/load-balancing systems supporting very large fleets. Bennett has production experience across AWS services, database schema design, and UI-facing features, and previously built virtual training and presence detection services using Ruby on Rails, Vue, Lambda, and DynamoDB. He brings a blend of systems-level engineering and practical product sensibility, frequently taking on stretch goals to improve reliability and operational tooling. A Georgia Tech computer science alumnus, he pairs strong academic foundations with hands-on delivery in high-scale cloud environments. Notably, his internships converted into full-time impact, demonstrating an ability to ship cross-functional solutions from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology