Michael Benedict
Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Benedict is a software engineer with 16 years of experience blending product development, data strategy and go-to-market work across startups and enterprise environments. Currently at Amazon after building ML-powered healthcare features at 98point6, he has shipped production services, migrated ML microservices into AWS, and worked across front- and back-end stacks using Python, React, Docker and PyTorch. His career began in international clean energy, including eight years in East Africa where he co-founded payments and energy-tech ventures that processed hundreds of thousands of transactions and supported carbon and financial inclusion work. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and product or sales-facing roles, he has led data pipelines, OCR/ML projects for Modernist Cuisine and closed revenue as Head of Growth during a high-demand period. He combines a physics/materials science academic background with unusual practical skills—from building low-cost book scanners to Android payment SDKs—bringing a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to solving real-world problems.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Culinary Arts/Chef Training, Culinary Arts/Chef Training at South African Chef's AcdemyMaster of Science (M.S.) Materials Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Materials Science at Binghamton UniversityBronx High School of Science
Github Skills (40)
graph10
javascript9
canvas9
charts8
sdk-android8
d3js8
android-sdk7
active7
svg7
json-objects6
visualizations6
android-app6
visualization6
sprockets5
data-visualization5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thebenedict/thebenedict.github.io
Dec 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:20 pushes in 5 years 3 months
thebenedict/tzanalyze
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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