Hi, I'm Ben.
I build things.
/ 01 bio
Hello hello 👋,
I'm Ben, a CS student at the University of South Florida! Over multiple internships, I've worked on Rust-based distributed systems, Java-based backend services, event-driven pipelines, and nearline data processing systems across fintech, AI platforms, and military technology. I'm mainly focused on distributed systems and infrastructure work these days, so if you're working on something cool, reach out and we can chat!
I also occasionally do research on Google Scholar.
/ 03 stack
languages
- Java
- TypeScript
- Python
- C#
- C++
- SQL
frameworks & tools
- Spring Boot
- React
- Next.js
- Django
- Express
- Docker
- Kubernetes
infrastructure
- AWS
- Kafka
- Apache Beam & Spark
- GraphQL
- DynamoDB
- Azure DevOps
/ 04 experience
Software Engineer Intern (Co-op)
Oct 2025 to PresentNorthrop Grumman · St. Petersburg, FL
- Contributed to Java based backend services for an operational readiness platform monitoring military equipment health and fault status, processing 5+ million events per day
- Reduced status visibility lag by 24% by migrating from polling-based, batched updates to Kafka based event pipelines that propagate near-real-time equipment health and alert data
- Improved Apache Beam and Spark workflows that cut processing latency by 19% by reducing shuffle costs, parallelizing operations, and removing batch boundaries in nearline telemetry processing
Software Developer Intern
Aug 2025 to Oct 2025Gradual · San Francisco, CA
- Architected AI Agents in Next.js with MCP connections to GitHub, MongoDB, and ClickHouse to query 100GB+ of company events data and to generate charts/graphs using AI SDK
- Deployed containerized AI agents and data services to a Kubernetes demo environment, using Deployments and Services to scale to 3 to 5 replicas and enable repeatable execution
Software Engineer Intern
May 2025 to Aug 2025Bill · San Jose, CA
- Implemented workflow using AWS SQS, Lambda, and API Gateway to resend and resolve over 700 failed webhook subscription events weekly
- Improved backend performance by building 6 new REST endpoints in Java (Spring Boot) and boosting query speed by 22% with index-backed lookups, prefix-based queries, and 4 global secondary indexes
- Developed React-based subscription querying tool and enhanced GraphQL endpoint with webhook schema integration, saving ~5 hours weekly for developers
/ 05 say hi
Want to talk?
Drop a line if you're building something interesting, want to collaborate, or just feel like saying hello.