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Benjamin Mays

@benjaminmays

I am a senior software engineer specializing in secure full‑stack systems, observability, and developer platform tooling.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking senior engineering roles building secure, scalable developer platforms or full-stack systems where I can lead architecture, improve observability, and mentor teams in production-scale environments.

I am a senior software engineer with experience building secure, scalable full-stack systems at companies including Stripe, Uber, Quartet Health, and Amazon. I designed and developed secure, responsive UI components and frontend architectures, built end-to-end workflows for access control, and improved platform reliability with failover and event deduplication supporting high-throughput messaging.

I led internal tooling and platform efforts that reduced regression detection time by over 50% and architected data and auth systems from mobile performance platforms to a Paxos-based key-value store. I seek to lead architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver developer-facing platforms that prioritize security, observability, and operational scalability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Stripe

Mar 2020 - Present (5 years 5 months)

Designed and developed secure, responsive UI components and end-to-end permission workflows for Stripe's internal security tooling, improving engineer productivity and reducing onboarding time for service integrations and supporting over 1,000 internal services.

React TypeScript GraphQL PostgreSQL Next.js Docker Kafka

Senior Software Engineer

Uber

Nov 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years)

Led development of an internal mobile performance testing platform and low-level test execution service, reducing regression detection time by over 50% and improving visibility into mobile performance.

React Redux Go)Python Android D3.Js Flask

Software Engineer

Quartet Health

Dec 2015 - Nov 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Designed and built SmartMatch provider recommendation engine and migrated a monolithic API to a query-driven Clojure service, improving care coordination and unblocking frontend teams.

Scala Clojure Spark Datomic Distributed Systems Django Elasticsearch Metrics

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

May 2013 - Jul 2015 (2 years 2 months)

Redesigned the core EBS volume metering aggregation pipeline and built cross-region control plane validation, eliminating scalability bottlenecks and improving metric accuracy and fault tolerance.