Ben Klassen Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

As a backend developer at Faire, I am primarily involved in our payment processing and internationalization product areas. Key business roles include:- Payment processing and invoicing charging- Infrastructure for underwriting and risk analysis- Integrations with 3rd party payment and PoS platforms- Managing feature development, testing and monitoringKey technical skills utilized:- Programming for distributed systems- Design for extensibility and resiliency- Design for testability and monitoringPrimary tools and technologies used in my role include:- Kotlin: backend code development- Hibernate: data querying- SQL/Redis: data storage and management- Datadog: monitoring

Santa Clara, California

Working with the Component Integration team at NVIDIA, I had the opportunity to prototype a distributed, modular system to support continuous integration development of NVIDIA software and firmware. Key aspects of the position included:• Ideation to implementation of a distributed, modular and user-defined workflow engine in Python. Intended use for large-scale software build-and-test with complex dependencies• Dialogue with and support for hardware and firmware designers by developing infrastructure services• Object-oriented, asynchronous Python development of client- and server-side code for web services• Use of Kubernetes and Docker to host a distributed system of services• Jenkins pipeline development

Kitchener, Canada Area

At Teledyne DALSA, I expanded my capabilities in software development for embedded systems and development operations (DevOps). Working as one of the primary resources behind a push towards adopting a model for continuous integration in software development, my key responsibilities were:• Driving DevOps initiatives, remaining accountable to time-critical deadlines in our release process• Anticipating the needs of the team throughout transitions in development practices/tools and proactively coordinating appropriate responses• Developing C code for embedded microprocessors used in camera technologies• Groovy and Python scripting for test and build systems, including build processes• Jenkins build system maintenance• Management of servers and software for unified, maintainable code development

Kitchener, Canada

• Python script development for data analysis and AWS integration• Data collection and analysis for DevOps initiatives• ServiceNow and Rally plugin development• Development statistic collection for software build analysis and statistics

Toronto, Canada