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Benjamin Cortina

@benjamincortina

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Senior software engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and AI/LLM innovation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek engineering roles building scalable cloud-native platforms and AI/LLM products, with opportunities for technical leadership, mentorship, and high-impact production delivery.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms at Amazon, Atlassian, and Epic. I focus on distributed systems, microservices, and AI/LLM-driven product innovation across full-stack architectures.

At Atlassian and Amazon I architected and led high-impact projects—redesigning Jira workflows, launching Generative AI features, and delivering Prime Gaming and AI-powered commerce platforms—serving millions of users and significantly improving performance and adoption metrics.

I have deep expertise across front-end and back-end stacks, cloud and DevOps (especially AWS), databases, event-driven systems, observability, and security best practices. I regularly mentor engineers and drive architectural consistency and production reliability in fast-paced enterprise environments.

I pursue practical, production-grade AI/LLM integrations and resilient microservice architectures that reduce latency, increase throughput, and improve operational metrics while maintaining compliance for regulated customers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Atlassian

Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Architect and technical lead for Jira and Confluence cloud initiatives, delivering AI/LLM-powered features that reduced issue transition latency by 35% and drove 30% adoption growth for new intelligence features.

React TypeScript Java Python Golang Kubernetes Kafka Redis OpenTelemetry

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon

Jan 2017 - Jan 2024 (7 years)

Built large-scale Prime Gaming and AI-powered commerce platforms serving over 10M daily users, improving engagement by 40% and reducing p95 latency by 45% through caching and indexing optimizations.

React TypeScript Java Python Golang AWS Lambda DynamoDB Terraform

Software Engineer

Epic Systems Corporation

Dec 2013 - Oct 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Led full-stack EHR platform development across MyChart, Cadence, and Beaker, increasing portal adoption by 50% and reducing clinician workflow latency by 40% via performance and microservice modernization.

Java React C++Docker CI CD REST APIs Observability

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Old Dominion University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2009 - 2013

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects covering software engineering, systems, and machine learning fundamentals.