Resume

Software Engineer — Web Developer — Tinkerer
Contact: resume@benjam.info
Status: Software Engineer at Oculus

Recruiters: Please do not contact me with openings at this time.

Experience

Facebook AR/VR (2020 – Present)

I work on the new user experience for Oculus products.

Instagram Server Framework (2018 – 2020)

The Instagram Server Framework team is responsible for developer velocity on Instagram’s Python-based server codebase. I worked on projects such as:

The development and open-sourcing of LibCST, a concrete syntax tree and parser for Python. LibCST enables complex large-scale automated refactoring.
A new linting framework for Python, making it easy for developers to add custom rules. We documented the work on Instagram’s Engineering blog.
A tool for detecting networking and threading side-effects at import-time, improving the reliability of Instagram’s deployment process.

Instagram Web (2016 – 2018)

I was a Frontend Engineer managing Instagram.com. Instagram.com is a progressive web app written in React with Redux. I played a significant role in launching features and internal architecture improvements, such as:

A redesign of the website and app.
The Instagram Stories viewer on mobile and desktop web.
Instagram’s modern GraphQL stack, and a migration to it.
A migration from Flux to Redux, adding Flow types to the data model along the way.

I helped grow the team from three engineers to over a dozen by the time I left.

Facebook (Summer 2015)

As an intern on the React team at Facebook, I was responsible for porting all of Facebook’s web frontend from JSHint to ESLint, along with a large set of custom rules.

Amazon (Summer 2014)

I completed an internship with Amazon’s Fulfillment team, developing tooling for optimizing the dimensions of packaging material available to Fulfullment Center workers based on previous orders shipped from a given location. Small reductions in “air shipped” at Amazon’s scale has a great potential to reduce both costs and the footprint on the environment.

I declined a return offer in favor of Facebook.

UF ACIS Lab (Summer 2012)

Under an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Fellowship grant and through UF’s University Scholars Program, I worked on IPOP and iDigBio.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

I graduated from the University of Florida in December 2015 through UF’s Combined BS/MS program.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Florida in December 2014.

Fun Facts

I open-source as much of my workstation as possible.
I use GPG, and we should trade keys in-person!

Technologies

Programming Languages: Rust, JavaScript, Python, Java, C, POSIX Shell, and Hack (PHP derivative)
Technologies: Linux, POSIX Shell, VIM, Git, Mercurial, SaltStack, and more!