Benson Chu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenson Chu is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services with a decade of engineering experience building reliable systems from internships to production at a major cloud provider. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara and has a background of full-stack and systems-focused internships across startups and hardware firms, including ShipHawk, Lumentum, OSIsoft, and VitalMetrics. At AWS he combines practical shipping experience with a curiosity-driven approach to coding—summed up on GitHub as “Yay programming!”—which signals a developer who enjoys tackling diverse problems. Benson’s trajectory shows strength in moving from rapid prototyping in internships to sustaining large-scale cloud services, and he’s comfortable spanning front-end and back-end responsibilities. Based in San Francisco, he brings pragmatic product sensibility to engineering trade-offs and a proven ability to learn quickly in new domains. Notably, his decade-long path reflects steady progression into cloud-native engineering rather than a narrow specialty, making him adaptable to varied technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Galileo Academy of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (35)
modular10
org-mode10
llvm10
cider10
rocks10
toolchain10
compiler10
zeplin10
clang10
emacs-lisp9
melpa9
development-environment9
emacs9
kde-plasma9
clojure9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pestctrl/org-ql
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
An Org-mode query language, including search commands and saved views
Contributions:26 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 2 months
emacsqueryorg-modequery-language
pestctrl/comp-412-compiler
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:234 pushes, 12 branches in 5 months
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