Benjamin
From Canada (UTC-4)
Benjamin – Golang, GCP, DevOps
Benjamin is a middle-to-senior backend engineer with experience in Go, async API design, and cloud architecture across GCP and AWS. He has built and shipped end-to-end product backends, including CI/CD and schema migrations, and demonstrates solid engineering judgment. He has worked with enterprise companies such as IBM and Thomson Reuters and is also a community organizer for a publishing platform focused on knowledge sharing.
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Principal Software Engineer / Architect
An AI-powered learning platform that turns documents and videos into searchable study materials for grounded coaching, quizzes, feedback, illustrated reviews, and connected learner–mentor progress tracking.




















- Architected and implemented the complete product stack, including applications, AI, media processing, data, security, edge services, CI/CD, and operations.
- Built multilingual learner, observer, and administrator experiences with role-based access, 2FA, audit trails, presence, and subscription billing.
- Developed resilient document and video pipelines for OCR, transcription, embeddings, vector search, and RAG workflows.
- Integrated Gemini-powered tutoring, assessments, content generation, and observer analysis with permission-aware tools and citations.
- Designed secure cross-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Fly.io, and R2 using federated workload identities.
- Built a Go-based internal developer platform for builds, deployments, infrastructure, secrets, identity, database operations, and rollback management.
- Established comprehensive testing and SRE practices covering observability, recovery, reconciliation, diagnostics, and production runbooks.
Principal Software Engineer / Community Organizer
A multilingual technology community and publishing platform for sharing knowledge, presenting projects, organizing events, and connecting members.














- Architected and implemented the full platform, including content, public and administrative interfaces, identity, AI translation, data, edge infrastructure, CI/CD, and operations.
- Built community and publishing features for content authoring, profiles, forums, notifications, event proposals, reviews, and localized event drafts.
- Developed a definition-driven Go content engine with validation, workflows, dashboards, media management, publishing, and Gemini-powered translation.
- Implemented rich Markdown and Org-mode rendering with SEO metadata, multilingual links, syntax highlighting, diagrams, charts, tables, multimedia, and automated sitemaps.
- Built secure account and administration features, including 2FA, external identity linking, roles, permissions, session control, audit logs, consent, and data requests.
- Designed cross-cloud infrastructure with Ent/Turso, DynamoDB, Cloudflare Workers, Fly.io, AWS OIDC, and GCP Workload Identity Federation.
- Built internal developer tooling and SRE practices for automated builds, deployments, secrets, migrations, testing, observability, monitoring, and rollback.
Software Engineer
A global consulting business that helps organizations solve business and technology challenges using services such as AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and digital transformation.
- Built a toolset to help product teams meet clients’ service level agreement (SLA) expectations for application responsiveness, speed, and reliability with K6 and Kubernetes.
- Enhanced system performance through optimization and refactoring, improving reliability and scalability.
- Delivered secure, modular microservices on AWS, integrating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab.
- Automated key workflows, reducing manual processing time and error rates with Kotlin coroutines and IBM MQ queues.
- Collaborated across teams, ensuring timely project delivery aligned with business goals.
Software Engineer / Application Developer
A community-services platform connecting people with local healthcare, human-services, education, mentorship, and rewards providers.

- Developed stress- and soak-testing suites for key APIs using JavaScript, Go, and k6 to support the sub-three-second SLA.
- Built parameterized performance tests using JavaScript, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Automated the collection and online publication of test-run metrics using GitHub Pages, JavaScript, and k6.
- Created performance graphs and reports identifying potential bottlenecks and recommending optimization steps.