Diego Benitez
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Just_
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDiego Benitez is a Lead Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js and AWS/Terraform with a pragmatic, team-first approach to delivery, having owned frontend features, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure work. Diego has led E2E testing and reporting POCs (Playwright, S3/Athena/Glue/QuickSight) and revamped CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, demonstrating a knack for operationalizing quality and observability. His background includes building developer-facing SDKs and Alexa skills at Amazon and contributing an Alexa trivia sample to a widely used JS SDK, reflecting an attention to both platform and product experience. Now based in Seattle and focused on distributed systems and AI-enabled services, he balances deep technical craft with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (4)
javascript10
alexa-skills-kit10
json9
nodejs8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amzn/alexa-skills-kit-js
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
SDK and example code for building voice-enabled skills for the Amazon Echo.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the development of a trivia skill for Amazon Alexa, implementing multiple features. They added a new "Reindeer Games" trivia sample, including question and answer sets. Further commits added support for more intents, like Yes and No for improved user interaction, and various formatting fixes to the code to improve the user experience.
amazon-echoamazonsdkechovoice
deegles/wordJuggler
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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